Am 30.07.2014 11:14, schrieb Edward M: > On 07/29/14 11:18, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote: >>> On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote: >>>> 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. >>>>> […] >>>>> and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram. >>>>> […] >>>>> 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? >>>> >>> yeah, requires a motherboard that supports ECC ram. >> >> Big was my surprise to learn that our old Pentium 3 PC from 1999 has ECC >> support in its three RAM sockets. The problem today is the artificial >> paritioning of the market. >> >> It seems nigh impossible (at least in the Intel world, please correct me >> regarding AMD) to have ECC RAM in a normal Home PC these days, >> especially in >> an ITX form factor, as I am currently investigating. There are Xeons >> for the >> 1150 “consumer socket”, but ECC is only supported by server chipsets >> such as >> the C series. Those come either on ITX boards with abysmal I/O >> capabilities >> for home use or on high-power workstation ATX boards that cost a small >> fortune. *sigh* >> >> I would have liked the aspect of a system that tells me when >> something goes >> wrong, but there seems no such thing for my requirements. So I must help >> myself with file checksums when dealing with my archive disks. >> > > > Unfortunately, I think it would be difficult finding a home-user board > with ECC support. since, nowadays appears ECC is mostly for systems > where data corruption is unacceptable, such a bank,etc >
pretty easy actually. When I looked for ECC support, ALL Asus boards supported it officially - and a whole bunch of Gigabyte boards according to their forums.
