On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller <fulle...@over-yonder.net> wrote: > > > I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte > > > GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half > > > filled - 2x2Gb) > > > > > > Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that is a > > > problem. > > > > How's that? Is the BIOS just stupid, or is the board physically > > missing traces? > > Doesn't matter really, does it? > > I have a GA-MA78G-DS3H. According to the specs, it supports ECC > memory. And that is all the mention of ECC you will find anywhere. > There is nothing in the BIOS. My best guess is that they quite > literally mean that you can plug ECC memory into the board and it > will work, but that there are no provisions to actually use ECC.
FWIW I can't see ECC support listed for that board on Gigabyte's website.. (vs the GA-MA770T-UD3P which does list ECC as supported - DDR3 board though) -- 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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