1GB memory ECC registered vs non-registered
Kevin Stevens
Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net
Mon Apr 7 09:40:46 PDT 2003
> Currently have some ISP1100 rackmount servers with 512k ECC unregistered
> PC100 RAM in them. In preparing to pick up more memory to boost these
> little boxes up to 1GB of RAM each, a memory company rep indicated that
> unregistered ECC would work fine up to 512mb, but if we moved to 1GB
> of memory then we would have to switch all memory over to registered
> ECC or we would run into problems...
>
> comments or insight?
That doesn't sound correct to me. Registered vs unregistered is a
functionality issue. Either the motherboard is designed to work with
registered RAM, or unregistered - I've not personally encountered any that
work with both. By "not work" I mean /black screen/no ram/can't load
BIOS/.
KeS
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