FreeBSD Crashes with AMD

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 7 15:28:22 PST 2004


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:01:57AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> As I mentioned before, for the Athlon XP,
> look for boards with the AMD-761 chipset.  They are getting rare and
> don't support the latest Athlon XP's, but some are still available. The
> Asus board doesn't support ECC, though.

I don't follow.  The Asus A7M266-D is AMD-761 based and does support ECC
RAM.

> Most of the AMD 64 boards support ECC, but are pricey.

Only 1/2.  The Athlon64 boards (ie, socket 754) can't use ECC RAM.
Only Opteron boards will.


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