ECC support in newer mobos?

[Oyeve]

Hi guys. I have an ASUS p3v4x that supports ECC sdram and was looking into getting a newer board like the CUSL2 815E SOLANO 2 but the product description states it doesnt support ecc memory. All I have is ecc. Does this mean it wont support the ecc functionality or does this mean it wont work at all? Thanks.

 

[HomiePodgy]

I guess that what you need is to switch to some PC133 RAM instead. I know one mainboard with support for older RAM, but it was the AOpen AX59Pro, witch is for Socket 7/AMD K6-2/III.
I'm not sure, but you will also get a faster system with new RAM, and the prices are always falling...

 

[Oyeve]

I think you must be confused homie. Ecc ram is not old. In fact all my ecc ram IS pc133 cas2. ECC is for error correction.

 

[dt]

I called Intel about ECC support in the 815 chipset. It does not support it but ECC RAM will run on the board, just not using ECC.

I had bought ECC Ram when I ordered some for another system I was building for a client from Crucial. I bought the ECC for $3 more which I felt was worth the extra $s.

I am a System engineer and like Server quality RAM.

 

[Oyeve]

So am I DT, thats why all my RAM is ecc. Thanks for the info. I kinda figured it would work but just not utilize the ECC features.

 

[AndyHui]

ECC SDRAM tends NOT to work properly on i815 motherboards, although you may be able to turn off ECC in the BIOS.

Generally motherboards such as the CUSL2 either won't work with the ECC SDRAM or it will only detect half of the amount on the DIMM. If it does work, the system tends to be very unstable.