ECC ram working in an ABIT AV8 !!!!

Doosht · 23 Aug 2009 at 16:56

This is very weird. How or why would ECC memory work in an ABIT AV8 3rd eye uGuru motherboard ive got??? And yes, its definately ECC server ram.

Anyone?

Monkeynut · 23 Aug 2009 at 17:03

I thought ECC was fine in mobo's, provided all the RAM was ECC. :confused:

PistolPete · 23 Aug 2009 at 17:47

NON-ECC is fine in an ECC board, but it's very weird that ECC ram works.
Are you sure it's ECC ram?? Has it got the extra controller chip?

Amonlym · 23 Aug 2009 at 20:55

the AV8 is a amd64 board, socket 7xx iirc. well all athlon 64 imc's have ecc compatibility, and im pretty sure most boards ive used listed ecc ram as compatible - heck my old KD7 has a bios option to enable/disable it and thats a via Kt400 based socket A board.

Doosht · 24 Aug 2009 at 07:55

PistolPete said:
NON-ECC is fine in an ECC board, but it's very weird that ECC ram works.
Are you sure it's ECC ram?? Has it got the extra controller chip?

Defo ECC ram and it has the extra controller chip

Doosht · 24 Aug 2009 at 07:56

Amonlym said:
the AV8 is a amd64 board, socket 7xx iirc. well all athlon 64 imc's have ecc compatibility, and im pretty sure most boards ive used listed ecc ram as compatible - heck my old KD7 has a bios option to enable/disable it and thats a via Kt400 based socket A board.

You learn something new everyday! Thanks for that, it would explain why its working.