FreeBSD Crashes with AMD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:18, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I just looked at the specification page for the Asus K8V Deluxe, which
> > is a socket 754 board with the Via K8T800, and it says:
> > 	3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 3GB un-buffered ECC and
> >         non-ECC PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 DDR SDRAM memory.
> > and the BIOS chapter in the manual has a section for the ECC
> > configuration screen.
>
> Sorry, I've never actually seen non-registered ECC RAM and thus forgot
> about it.  Yes, if you can find it Athlon64 boards will support ECC as
> the memory controller in the Athlon64 CPU has full support for it.

Heh, you can buy non-reg'd ECC RAM, but man my RAM supplier looks at me 
weirdly when I ask for it :)

(It's not cheap either)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140  AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5