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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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