1GB memory ECC registered vs non-registered

Michael Fuckner molli123 at rebootking.de
Mon Apr 7 10:08:55 PDT 2003


Kevin Stevens wrote:
>>a memory company rep indicated that unregistered ECC would work fine up to 512mb,

> 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/.
IIRC is the Intel BX-Chipset the only one supporting RAM no matter if 
ECC or not, registered or not and beeing able to use it.
I've never seen a BX with 1GB, but the handbook says that it should work.

Micha !



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