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Date:      Tue, 09 Jan 2001 18:37:15 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, FreeBSD Chat List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Subject:   Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010109173437.047ebe40@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101081144480.834-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos .net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101080958290.96355-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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I just bought a KT133 motherboard -- an EPoX EP-8KTA2 -- from
2K Computing. (They offer special pricing on computershopper.com.)
I'll be running it with a 1.1 GHz T-Bird.

The board is documented at 

http://www.epox.com/html/english/products/motherboard/ep-8kta2.htm

and got pretty good reviews. However, I don't think that it supports
ECC. While some third parties (i.e. resellers) say that the
chipset supports ECC, the motherboard manufacturer doesn. And Via's 
documentation of the North Bridge chip at

http://www.viatech.com/pdf/productinfo/kt133.pdf

makes no mention at all of ECC. The similar spec sheet for the KX133
does mention ECC.

I tend to believe the chip manufacturer in such situations.

--Brett


At 09:47 AM 1/8/2001, Francisco Reyes wrote:
  
>On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Dillon wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, with every X86 chipset I've used at least, the correction
>> happens automatically, and the NMI is only there to alert you that it
>> has happened.  Most systems will let you turn the NMI off for
>> corrections and only issue an NMI for an un-correctable error.
>
>But how will it "alert"? Will show up on the screen?
>
>I finally found an Athlon Tbird motherboard that supports ECC.
>Contrary to previous info IT IS KT133.
>Abit K7V (I think that is the model.. it is an Abit board anyway).
>
>
>
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