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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:40:14 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Crashes with AMD
Message-ID:  <20040108074014.GJ25474@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200401081409.10503.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200401071731.40481.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200401081058.26112.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <3FFCCC5B.3010001@mindcore.net> <200401081409.10503.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:09:10PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> I don't recall offhand if their BIOS currently posts ECC vs non ECC as
>> part of their POST or not, but the presumed support is in there, or
>> their docs and specs are completely wrong ;-)
>
>Heh :)
>That's the thing about ECC, it's hard to test unless you have a known faulty 
>memory module lying around :(

If you have a spare known-good ECC DIMM, you can convert it to a known-
faulty DIMM by cutting a single I/O lead on one of the RAM chips.  If
you pick a chip where you can read the part number, you should be able
to download a datasheet (including pinouts) from the chip manufacturer.
You might also be able to cut an I/O track on the DIMM itself.

Peter



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