Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:40:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB memory ECC registered vs non-registered Message-ID: <35251.192.85.47.1.1049733644.squirrel@new.host.name> In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNCELHLLAB.dave@hawk-systems.com> References: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNCELHLLAB.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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> Currently have some ISP1100 rackmount servers with 512k ECC unregistered > PC100 RAM in them. In preparing to pick up more memory to boost these > little boxes up to 1GB of RAM each, a memory company rep indicated that > unregistered ECC would work fine up to 512mb, but if we moved to 1GB > of memory then we would have to switch all memory over to registered > ECC or we would run into problems... > > comments or insight? That doesn't sound correct to me. Registered vs unregistered is a functionality issue. Either the motherboard is designed to work with registered RAM, or unregistered - I've not personally encountered any that work with both. By "not work" I mean /black screen/no ram/can't load BIOS/. KeS
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