Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:00:19 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD Message-ID: <200401080000.i0800J7E018007@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20040107232819.GC64718@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 7 Jan, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:01:57AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
>> As I mentioned before, for the Athlon XP,
>> look for boards with the AMD-761 chipset. They are getting rare and
>> don't support the latest Athlon XP's, but some are still available. The
>> Asus board doesn't support ECC, though.
>
> I don't follow. The Asus A7M266-D is AMD-761 based and does support ECC
> RAM.
I was referring to the A7M266 uniprocessor board, which Asus
specifically says does not support ECC RAM. It was the only AMD-761 ATX
motherboard that I found that does not support ECC, which suprised the
heck out of me when I was shopping for a motherboard for my Athlon XP
system. These boards still listed on pricewatch.com. The A7M266-D dual
processor board is considerably more expensive.
>> Most of the AMD 64 boards support ECC, but are pricey.
>
> Only 1/2. The Athlon64 boards (ie, socket 754) can't use ECC RAM.
> Only Opteron boards will.
I just looked at the specification page for the Asus K8V Deluxe, which
is a socket 754 board with the Via K8T800, and it says:
3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 3GB un-buffered ECC and
non-ECC PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 DDR SDRAM memory.
and the BIOS chapter in the manual has a section for the ECC
configuration screen.
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