Re: AMD MP, SMP, Tyan 2466

[Joe Briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>]

Tyan publishes a list of tested memory chips for this board on their website.  
I tried the AOPEN ECC memory and it did not work.

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:19 am, paterley wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2003 00:02:39 -0400
>
> Jason <jason@project-lace.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm coming into this conversation a bit late, so I might be missing
> > something and appologize if I am.  But  I have the same board and
> > experienced some intersting weirdness with PC2100 NON ECC chips on this
> > board as well.  I was using High performance ram from Mushkin at the
> > time.  Now here's the interesting part, according to some small print in
> > the manual, non ecc ram works up to 1.5Gb.  Knowing this, I bought 1Gb
> > of it, 2 512MB sticks.  I put them both in, and the board only sees
> > 512Mb.  So I talk to Mushkin about it, apparently they've done some
> > testing with this board.  Non ECC memory is EXTREMELY flakey in this
> > board.  So flakey that Tyan, unofficially mind you, recommened to them
> > that they not suggest to their customers to put non ecc memory in this
> > board.  So I got 1Gb of ECC Registered memory, and have yet to have a
> > problem with it.
>
> Actually, your 2 dimm problem could have (probably) been solved by
> rearranging your dimms.  I have the 2462ung (thunder k7) and the only way I
> could get 512 megs (give me a break I'm a porr college student) was to put
> one in slot 1 and one in slot 3 (numbering starting at 0).
>
> Pat Erley--
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