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Am 30.07.2014 11:14, schrieb Edward M: |
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> On 07/29/14 11:18, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote: |
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>>> On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote: |
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>>>> On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>>>> [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error |
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>>>>> detected on the NB. |
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>>>>> […] |
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>>>>> and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram. |
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>>>>> […] |
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>>>>> And this evening, with a thunderstorm outside I got that beauty |
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>>>>> above... |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need |
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>>>> a special motherboard? |
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>>>> |
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>>> yeah, requires a motherboard that supports ECC ram. |
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>> Big was my surprise to learn that our old Pentium 3 PC from 1999 has ECC |
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>> support in its three RAM sockets. The problem today is the artificial |
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>> paritioning of the market. |
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>> It seems nigh impossible (at least in the Intel world, please correct me |
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>> regarding AMD) to have ECC RAM in a normal Home PC these days, |
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>> especially in |
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>> an ITX form factor, as I am currently investigating. There are Xeons |
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>> for the |
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>> 1150 “consumer socket”, but ECC is only supported by server chipsets |
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>> such as |
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>> the C series. Those come either on ITX boards with abysmal I/O |
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>> capabilities |
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>> for home use or on high-power workstation ATX boards that cost a small |
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>> fortune. *sigh* |
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>> I would have liked the aspect of a system that tells me when |
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>> something goes |
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>> wrong, but there seems no such thing for my requirements. So I must help |
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>> myself with file checksums when dealing with my archive disks. |
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> Unfortunately, I think it would be difficult finding a home-user board |
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> with ECC support. since, nowadays appears ECC is mostly for systems |
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> where data corruption is unacceptable, such a bank,etc |
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> |
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pretty easy actually. When I looked for ECC support, ALL Asus boards |
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supported it officially - and a whole bunch of Gigabyte boards according |
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to their forums. |