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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:46PM +1030 I heard the voice of
Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
> with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb)
>
> [...]
>
> Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that is a problem.

How's that?  Is the BIOS just stupid, or is the board physically
missing traces?


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