Motherboard shopping

gboyce gboyce at badbelly.com
Fri Jan 27 10:49:31 EST 2006


On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Tom Metro wrote:

> ECC RAM will help you identify a fault, but won't inherently make a system 
> more stable. The vast majority of commodity systems, even without ECC, are 
> reliable.

ECC = Error Checking and Correction

My understanding is that ECC memory will actually correct single bit 
errors automatically, but can't deal with multi-bit exceptions.

It may not correct all memory errors, but it will help some.

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Greg



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