Kam Leo wrote:
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.
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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.
And don't forget that the motherboard must support the ECC feature, as
well. In case of AMD CPUs (more specifically, ones with on-CPU memory
controllers), the CPU should support ECC, as well.
