From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 13 15:40:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA29791 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:40:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (dn800e0-ext.fingerhut.com [204.221.45.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29782 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bruce.Albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com) Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (root@localhost) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com with ESMTP id RAA14617 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:43:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from seag.fingerhut.com (GF007E0.SEAG.fingerhut.com [151.210.140.7]) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com with SMTP id RAA14613 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:43:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from g0024.seag.fingerhut.com by seag.fingerhut.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA11631; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:40:36 -0500 Received: by g0024.seag.fingerhut.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA02103; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:40:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:40:33 -0500 Message-Id: <9710132240.AA02103@g0024.seag.fingerhut.com> From: Bruce Albrecht To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Parity/ECC memory X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Pentium Pro system with the Intel 440FX chipset. If I have 2 32M x 36 SIMMs, can I set the chipset to ECC, or can it only be set to check parity? What type of memory do I have to order if I want to set it to ECC? I'm having problems with my system claiming there are memory problems when I turn on ECC (and maybe when I turn on parity checking as well), and my vendor is claiming that my memory is only good for straight parity checking. I've looked at the Intel datasheets, and the only requirements they mention for ECC is x72 memory and a BIOS which supports it (which I have).