On 07/29/14 11:18, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote:
On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote:
On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
[894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error
detected on the NB.
[…]
and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram.
[…]
And this evening, with a thunderstorm outside I got that beauty above...
Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need
a special motherboard?
yeah, requires a motherboard that supports ECC ram.
Big was my surprise to learn that our old Pentium 3 PC from 1999 has ECC
support in its three RAM sockets. The problem today is the artificial
paritioning of the market.
It seems nigh impossible (at least in the Intel world, please correct me
regarding AMD) to have ECC RAM in a normal Home PC these days, especially in
an ITX form factor, as I am currently investigating. There are Xeons for the
1150 “consumer socket”, but ECC is only supported by server chipsets such as
the C series. Those come either on ITX boards with abysmal I/O capabilities
for home use or on high-power workstation ATX boards that cost a small
fortune. *sigh*
I would have liked the aspect of a system that tells me when something goes
wrong, but there seems no such thing for my requirements. So I must help
myself with file checksums when dealing with my archive disks.
Unfortunately, I think it would be difficult finding a home-user board
with ECC support. since, nowadays appears ECC is mostly for systems
where data corruption is unacceptable, such a bank,etc
