memtest86: ECC disabled?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:39:35AM +0100, Alexander Apprich wrote:
> ECC is Error Correcting/Correction Code, and it's a special kind of RAM. 
> AFAIK only server mainboards (can) have those. IIRC Intel have/had ECC
> included in some chipsets, but it was disabled by default, and there is
> no way to enable it.

It's available in the occasional desktop/workstation motherboard too. Slight
performance hit + slight price increase, in exchange for added reliablity.

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