På 2007-04-10, skrev Bill Broadley: > hajhouse wrote: > > > So all AMD64-supporting boards are ECC-capable, then? > > Hrm, well, the motherboard maker has only to tweak a few bits in BIOS, and > run traces to all 72 pins on the dimms. I wouldn't rule out a non-ecc capable > amd64, but it's much better than the intel situation where you have to buy > a more expensive north bridge to get ECC.
Cool. I believe that this means that even if the BIOS for some strange reason did not activate the mmu's parity support, such support would be added by installing LinuxBIOS.* * http://linuxbios.eu > Keep in mind that it's often hard to find ECC dimms that are unregistered, > seems like most dimms are non-ecc and non-registered, or ecc and registered. I've never understood the distinction. What's different between registered and unregistered DIMMs? -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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