ECC Memory And Shuttle Athlon Motherboards?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 23, 2000 @01:20AM from the watching-for-hardware-gotchas! dept.

A not-so-nameless Anonymous Coward asks: "Anyone knows of a specific instance where an AMD Athlon motherboard worked with PC100 ECC Memory? I have heard some rumors that they don't like ECC memory. I built a server, and foolish me decided to do the right thing and get the good memory: 256 Megs corsair registered, ECC PC100 strip. However, they didn't work in the Shuttle AMD K7 Athlon motherboard. Now, before you ask me why shuttle AI61, I was in a hurry and it was the only thing in hand. The 256Meg used 256Mbit chips, so I thought perhaps the BIOS didn't support 256 Mbits chips, 128 Meg PC100 ECC generic brand didn't help. Cheapo PC100 works just fine! An e-mail to shuttle went unanswered and their distributor didn't help much either."

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Not Shuttle's fault, see AMD Athlon FAQ by ddstreet · 2000-05-23 01:38 · Score: 3

See the AMD Athlon FAQ, question :

Question:
My memory has all the requirements listed above, but it also has ECC (Error Correction Code). Is that a good thing?

Answer:
ECC is an excellent function for memory, but it is of no advantage for your new AMD Athlon processor-based system. In fact, it may slow down the performance of your new system. You may want to consider using memory that is not ECC.