All,
My home file server consists of the following:
1) Biostar A760G-M2+ motherboard
2) AMD 4050e Athlon64 x2
3) Kingston 2GB 533MHz DDR2 ECC (P/N: KVR533D2E4K2/2G)
That's ECC memory. The A64's memory controller supports ECC. The board supports ECC in BIOS. But Biostar adamantly denies it.
The applicable section in BIOS:
ECC enabled:
Memtest 86+ confirms it:
Biostar's responses so far are pretty funny:
Anyway. Is there some way I can test ECC functionality on my end? The only method I've found so far to repeatably introduce single bit errors is to insulate one if the contacts (with tape or something). Any other ideas? Taping over contacts isn't something I'm comfortable with...
My home file server consists of the following:
1) Biostar A760G-M2+ motherboard
2) AMD 4050e Athlon64 x2
3) Kingston 2GB 533MHz DDR2 ECC (P/N: KVR533D2E4K2/2G)
That's ECC memory. The A64's memory controller supports ECC. The board supports ECC in BIOS. But Biostar adamantly denies it.
The applicable section in BIOS:
ECC enabled:
Memtest 86+ confirms it:
Biostar's responses so far are pretty funny:
That was after I stated that I was already using ECC memory and had enabled it in BIOS. Oh yeah, and it's in THEIR MANUAL. Biostar responded:No ECC functionality, currently none of our motherboards have ECC function, generally ECC functions are found on server based motherboards.
I haven't replied to that one yet - I'm not sure if I understand it. I'm going to forward them the BIOS and memtest shots above.For this board that setting is supposed to be hidden because it doesn’t have that feature. It has ECC memory, but the function isn’t there.
Anyway. Is there some way I can test ECC functionality on my end? The only method I've found so far to repeatably introduce single bit errors is to insulate one if the contacts (with tape or something). Any other ideas? Taping over contacts isn't something I'm comfortable with...
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