Mixing ECC and non-ECC memory

[exedanni]

I have a KT7A v1.2 mobo, and I my RAM is a single Kingston 256MB PC133 ECC CL3 stick.

Now let's say I want to upgrade to 512MB. Obviously getting an another, identical stick would be ideal, but could I just get a generic PC133 256MB DIMM, or would my system become unstable? Does the ECC memory fall back to non-ECC when mixed with normal memory?

exedanni

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Yeah, you've answered your own question. If you want to keep the extra stability offered by ECC buy more ECC but, yes, you can put in a regular stick and it'll run fine, just without the ECC function working.