From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 16:00:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F3216A4CE; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA9643D31; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0800J7E018007; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200401080000.i0800J7E018007@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:00:19 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis To: obrien@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20040107232819.GC64718@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Subject: Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:00:33 -0000 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.