FreeBSD on Ryzen
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 23 11:36:03 UTC 2017
On 03/23/2017 01:26, Don Lewis wrote:
> Yes. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-AB350 Gaming. On the motherboard
> specification page it specifically says:
> Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in
> non-ECC mode)
> and there are no knobs in the BIOS to enable ECC. I was hoping to get
> lucky though because the memory support list has an entry for the RAM
> that I purchased with a checkmark in the ECC column. I've got some older
> Gigabyte AM2 - AM3+ boards that support ECC even though it is not
> mentioned anywhere in the spec.
>
> I have heard rumors that some other motherboards silently support ECC if
> they detect it even though they don't have any mention of it in their
> BIOS configuration screens.
Yeah, that's the reason I asked.
> To check this I installed the latest
> version of Fedora rawhide and there was no indication of ECC support in
> the boot messages, edac-utils didn't find it, and dmidecode said that
> the memory was 64 bits wide and not 72.
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Andriy Gapon
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