Motherboards and BIOS settings support both ECC and non-ECC memory in most
cases . It's up to whoever assembles the system to decide what to use.

Best Regards,
Matt Tudor, MSEE- RF Design & Consulting
Gigahertz Electronics
http://www.gigahertzelectronics.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Elson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Protel EDA Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel Crashes


>Jeff Adolphs wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all for all the advise!!
>>
>> My latest theroy is that the extended RAM module was indeed bad. AutoCAD
>> 2000 is running good without the RAM module. I am assuming current
>> Protel projects may have had the Databases corrupted (when the bad RAM
>> card was in place) and why I continue to get Protel crashes (although I
>> haven't worked on Protel since using Database repair).
>>
>> At this point I have been able to get work done in all software
>> programs. Time will tell whether I have other issues involved and I will
>> keep the info from the group in mind.
>
>Whew!  Having worked on a number of mini-mainframe systems over
>the years (when they were king) and having gotten used to having
>the computer stop rather than blundering on destroying data in
>hidden ways, this is really intolerable!  It is totally apalling that
>modern
>computers don't even have parity in most cases, no less ECC memory.
>I guess there are "server-grade" motherboards that do have these
>features.
>
>Jon


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