Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:35:03 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Ryzen Message-ID: <b273747f-451a-4159-901f-e1eb6797e8ae@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201703222326.v2MNQ7o1030213@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <201703222326.v2MNQ7o1030213@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 03/23/2017 01:26, Don Lewis wrote: > Yes. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-AB350 Gaming. On the motherboard > specification page it specifically says: > Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in > non-ECC mode) > and there are no knobs in the BIOS to enable ECC. I was hoping to get > lucky though because the memory support list has an entry for the RAM > that I purchased with a checkmark in the ECC column. I've got some older > Gigabyte AM2 - AM3+ boards that support ECC even though it is not > mentioned anywhere in the spec. > > I have heard rumors that some other motherboards silently support ECC if > they detect it even though they don't have any mention of it in their > BIOS configuration screens. Yeah, that's the reason I asked. > To check this I installed the latest > version of Fedora rawhide and there was no indication of ECC support in > the boot messages, edac-utils didn't find it, and dmidecode said that > the memory was 64 bits wide and not 72. -- Andriy Gapon
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