From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 8:43:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218BB37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:43:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA64679; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:39:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:47:35 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: Chris Dillon Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , FreeBSD Chat List , David Kelly Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > AFAIK, with every X86 chipset I've used at least, the correction > happens automatically, and the NMI is only there to alert you that it > has happened. Most systems will let you turn the NMI off for > corrections and only issue an NMI for an un-correctable error. But how will it "alert"? Will show up on the screen? I finally found an Athlon Tbird motherboard that supports ECC. Contrary to previous info IT IS KT133. Abit K7V (I think that is the model.. it is an Abit board anyway). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message