Athlon MP and Registered ECC DDR PC2100 Ram

yipsilant

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hello all,

a friend gave me a Tyan MP (S2460) motherboard that does not work. fixing it would cost $75 so it is time to buy a new motherboard. The Tyan MP seems to have quite a few problems. The AMD chipset does not seem to work very well. i would rather not buy another motherboard with a AMD chipset (ie. 760 or 762) that leaves me with:

one AMD athlon MP 1600 FSB=266 Mhz Cahe = 256 Kbyte

two Kingston KVR266X72RC25/512 (512MB 266MHz DDR PC2100 Reg ECC DIMM CL2.5)

is there a motherboard out there that uses both? i would like to keep the price under $100. i like the Abit NF7-S2 and the Asus A7N8X Deluxe, but they don't seem to work with ECC ram. I have found one mother board that might work:

ECS L7VMM or L7VMM2, but I would like on-board LAN, NVIDIA nForce2 ultra chipset and ATX form-factor.

Are there any motherboards for me?

Thank you

-matthew

I would be ok with a "in-person" trade if you live in the greater Seattle area. ECC ram for Non-ECC ram.


ECS L7VMM or L7VMM2

Socket A board that supports AMD® K7 processor up to 266/200MHz FSB

Integrated with the most advanced technologies:

* Internal/External AGP
* Suspend to RAM
* Hardware monitoring
* USB 2.0
* IEEE 1394 (optional)

PROCESSORS

* 462 pin Socket A supports the AMD® K7 processors
* Full series of Athlon XP / Athlon / Duron

processors

CHIPSET

* VIA® KM266 (NB) & VT8235 (SB) Chipset
o KM266 V-Link Host system controller and VT8233 V-Link Client to PCI/LPC bridge
o Peak Bandwidth 266MB/S 8-bit V-link Host Controller
o Integrated ProSavage 8 2D/3D video accelerator, 32MB shared memory
* LPC I/O ¡V IT8705F
* VIA® VT6306 IEEE 1394 host controller (optional)
* LAN: 10/100 Mbps faster Ethernet (optional)
* AC97 Audio Codec: Compliant with AC97 2.2 specification

L7VMM2 MainboardSYSTEM BIOS

* Award 2Mb Flash EEPROM
* Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, AMP 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
* Support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification

MEMORY

* 2 DDR DIMMs sockets support 2.5V DDR SDRAM (DDR266/DDR200)
* Maximum: 1GB (Unbuffered Memory)/ 2GB (Buffered Memory)

I/O INTERFACE

* Supports Plug and Play function
* PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
* Dual USB ports and an optional LAN connector
* Dual USB ports and an optional IEEE 1394 connector
* 1 - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
* 1 - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
* VGA connector
* Audio ports (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, CD-in and game port)
* Dual PCI IDE interfaces - support four IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 66/100/133)
* Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 mode FDDs or LS120
* ATX power supply connectors
* Ports, headers and others:
o IrDA header
o Dual extra USB Ports (USB3)
o Front Panel MIC/Line-Out header
o HDD LED, ACPI MSG LED, Reset Switch, Power Switch headers
o CPU and case fan headers
o LAN Card Wake Up / Modem Ring Wake-Up headersnot
 

CraigRT

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You should really get an MPX board off eBay and pick-up another CPU cheap.
dually systems are awesome, I just bought an MSI K7D Master mobo and 2 MP1800 CPU's.. it's a joy to use, and got it all at discounted prices (eBay, and even bought the board from a member on Anandtech)
 

yipsilant

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Jul 8, 2004
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i really don't like AMD chipsets anymore. one already failed and i have heard that the AMD chipset likes to fail. i would rather not use AMD again. any other motherboard ideas.

thanks

-matthew
 

o1die

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I would try selling the memory on ebay or in your local paper. With regular pc2700 or pc3200 memory, you'll have a wide selection of motherboards to choose from. The best motherboards use the nforce2 chipset, which can be had for $50-90.
 

yipsilant

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Jul 8, 2004
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looks like i am doomed. no one makes a socket a motherboard that supports Registered ECC ram.

thank you for your ideas

-matthew
 

CraigRT

Lifer
Jun 16, 2000
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Originally posted by: yipsilant
looks like i am doomed. no one makes a socket a motherboard that supports Registered ECC ram.

thank you for your ideas

-matthew

you can always try the ECC RAM in a mobo to see if it works, I've never tried this, but I can't say that for sure it won't work or not. I know you can disable ECC in the BIOS of motherboards that support it, so maybe the RAM will work in a regular mobo.
 

Peter

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ECC isn't the point - the extra eight data lanes will be ignored if the chipset doesn't do that trick. The Registered property - the DIMM having signal line buffers and a clock PLL - must be handled by the chipset.

As far as I remember, SiS and NVidia chipsets can't do it, while the VIA KT series can. However I don't expect too many BIOSes even for those boards to actually implement support for Registered DIMMs.

There's nothing wrong with AMD's chipsets btw, no matter what the hearsay is. They're targeted for and have been quite successful in the low end server and workstation market. You bet it'd be very publicly known if it were unreliable in any way.