> Yes yes I know this has been a topic a plethora of times but hear me out.
> Ok, my question is I just picked up bag full of 32meg rams (16 sticks). The
> sticker on each ram stick reads " IBM 32MB 60NS (4MX72) 5.0V ECC " Is it
> possible to use this type of RAM in the 7300? The manual only says EDO or
> FPM, so I'm not sure if these sticks will work in my 7300. The guy I got
> them from assured me they were 168 pin DIMMs.
>
Hi,
in some FAQs on the Apple site you can find these infos :
16) Question: What is ECC memory and do Macintosh computers
support it?
Answer: Macintosh computers do not support ECC memory. ECC
(Error Correction Coding) memory has additional check bits
for each byte. This entails the memory controller calculating
and writing error control check bits on each memory write operation,
and recalculating and comparing the check bits on memory read
operations, and then if necessary correcting the bad bits. As
opposed to parity, this can automatically correct single bit RAM errors.
Hope this helps,
Thierry
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