Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory

[freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu]

On Sat, May 05, 2001, Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2001-05-04 15:21:16, freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu wrote:
> 
> > Note, though, that I've heard Athlon
> > doesn't play well with ECC, though it remains to be seen if this will
> > be improved for the Dual Athlons (as it should be); again, hopefully,
> > others can add more.
> 
> Asus K7V, Athlon @ 800 MHz w/ 256 MB ECC running just fine here (had
> to flash upgrade BIOS to get ECC support though).
> 
> 
> /Allan

Allan,

Glad to hear it!  I'm going the Athlon route (hopefully dual) myself
soon, and want to get PC2100 ECC memory with it, so I'm glad to know
you've made it work.  My above comment was just a repetition of
something that I'd read on one of the hardware review sites;
hopefully, I made it sufficiently clear that I could have been wrong,
as it turned out I was.  Incidentally, what I really meant by my
comment was that I had read that certain chipsets that support Athlons
due not play well with ECC.  I wonder if this is still possibly true,
and your Asus is just an example of a better motherboard which uses a
more-competently engineered chipset.  Let's see... What are the main
chipsets that support Athlon?  AMD 760, Via kt133, Ali Magick (?or
something), Sis (something I think).  Anyone know if there is anything
behind what I remember reading with one of these chipsets?  Or maybe
I'm just completely mistaken...

Anyway, take care and thanks for sharing your Athlon success with me.

-Daniel


-- 
Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University