Am 27.07.2014 00:55, schrieb walt: > On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error >> detected on the NB. >> [894019.770084] EDAC MC0: 1 CE on mc#0csrow#2channel#0 (csrow:2 >> channel:0 page:0x2aa6ce offset:0xc60 grain:0 syndrome:0x63e1) >> [894019.770090] [Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no >> action required. >> [894019.770098] [Hardware Error]: CPU:0 (10:4:2) >> MC4_STATUS[-|CE|MiscV|-|AddrV|CECC]: 0x9c70c00063080a13 >> [894019.770105] [Hardware Error]: MC4_ADDR: 0x00000002aa6cec60 >> [894019.770110] [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, mem/io: MEM, >> mem-tx: RD, part-proc: RES (no timeout) >> >> and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram. >> >> Using zfs showed me, that there are errors that the system does not >> catch but corrupts data. >> >> And this evening, with a thunderstorm outside I got that beauty above... > Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need > a special motherboard? > > > > >
depends on your motherboard. ASUS boards support ECC officially. You just put it in. With Gigabyte some boards support it, some don't - and they don't advertise it. But on their forums are threads about it. Rest: I have no idea.
