Ahhh Socket 7 mobo that doesn't accept non-parity SIMMS!?!?!

[IcEsToRmX]

Ok here's the lowdown 4 months ago or so I got a box full of PC parts cheap ( Christmas came early ). So I decided to test what I could and get rid of the rest to recoup what I spent. Anyhow a socket 7 board went off to a buyer (PCpartner to be exact). The board was tested it seemed to boot up fine no problems. Told the person if anything goes wrong within a week or so let me know. After a week everything was fine. 4 months go by and he comes back saying the board doesn't take simms!?! I stuck in two 8 megs I had lying around ... and voila it passes POST. Stick in non-parity chips and *bzzz* wrong answer. Anyone ever experience this type of an error before? If the slots were shot it shouldn't take anything at all. Bios problem? Board problem? Let me know ... otherwise I'm going to either have to bite the bullet give him $20 only a $5 difference that what he paid for the board or rip my server apart ( which I don't want to do ). Calling out all PC gurus I need answers and soon! Cheers!:frown:

 

[Peter]

Well maybe ECC is enabled in BIOS setup and BIOS is stupid enough to actually use ECC even if non-ECC SIMMs (no-parity, same thing) have been detected.

Put your 36-bit SIMMs in, visit BIOS setup and see if you can adjust the "memory error checking mode" or similar, then try again.

I am not aware of any socket-7 chipsets that require ECC RAM, i.e. don't have ECC mode programmability.

regards, Peter

 

[anandfan]

I have an older Gateway 486 motherboard that only accepts parity memory. What a pain that was!

 

[IcEsToRmX]

What a headache ... havent' gotten much sleep .. seller returned the board ( I couldn't take the trouble anymore so I just gave him most of his money back even though it had been 4 months ). I'm going to try to fix it or do whatever I can .. I got parts lying around still to make a P100 system so we'll see how that goes. If anyone else has suggestions please if it'll let me sleep @ night it would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!