On 6/24/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 12:47 AM -0700 6/24/07, Konstantin Svist wrote: >I think you're missing the point here. >ECC ram will not guard against failures, it will simply reduce the >probability of a failure. In other words, it just prolongs the inevitable. ... No. ECC RAM does guard against RAM failures; that is exactly what it is for and what it does. Without ECC failures are undetected and produce bad data. ECC turns those into detected failures with good data. ECC prevents almost all RAM data errors, and allows detection of faulty RAM, allowing it to be replaced before total or unrecoverable failures, while preventing transient soft errors from accumulating as bad data. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
Laptop computers use SODIMM memory modules. Most laptops have two sockets for memory. Do a search and see if you can find any 2 GB with ECC DDR2 SODIMM modules. If your laptop is custom ordered you might get ECC memory pre-installed.otherwise you will have to do it yourself.
