Will ECC work on A7V266 (E)?

[Mr. Crisis]

Hi all...

Do anyone know whether my Crucial DDR2100 ECC unbuffered ram will work with the ECC-feature enabled on a Asus A7V266(E) board?

According to VIA the KT266 and KT266A chipset supports ECC and according to Crucial my ram will work to these chipsets (and the A7V266). But since there is no mention of ECC-support in the Asus manual/bios I was wondering whether the ECC-feature will be detected and enable on the board by the chipset "behind the scenes"?

Does anyone have some ECC-ram working on the A7V266 - and if so could you please check whether it is enabled?

Thanks for any input.

 

[Snookums]

I was going to buy unbuffered unregistered ECC from Crucial, and had actually placed an order for it. A few minutes later I check a thread I wrote about the RAM and someone tells me there's no slowdown with registered memory, so I called Crucial, upgraded to registered ECC and they still gave me the web discount (go Crucial!).

To answer your question, yes unbuffered unregistered ECC will work fine in that system. While Mushkin charges over $160 per 256 MB stick the Crucial goes for $40. I spent the extra $4 and got registered DIMMs just to be safe and get the best.

 

[Mr. Crisis]

<< To answer your question, yes unbuffered unregistered ECC will work fine in that system. >>



As in: Yes ECC will be enabled and working even though there is no mention of ECC in the bios? If so: Great!

Thanks!

 

[Snookums]

I know for a fact that the KT266A chipset has ECC support, and every Asus board I've ever used had ECC support built it. You should be able to just go into your BIOS and look for the memory parity mode setting, then switch it to ECC. If you're absolutely sure you've looked everywhere and there is no mention of ECC support then you should contact Asus. The board should support it and I just can't see how they could forget to add that option in their BIOS, but it could happen...

The system I use right now uses unbuffered unregistered ECC DIMMs on an Asus P3B-F.

If I disable ECC my DIMMs function just like regular memory, which is what I assume yours will do should you not be able to find a way to turn ECC on. ECC must be activated for it to work on most boards.