Thanks, Hugh, Konstantin, Kam, Peter and Tony! So, I guess the moral of the story is that it is well-nigh impossible to get a true ECC-memory laptop with motherboard, memory and slots, and it is probably not all that crucial in the grand scheme of things? I hope I am not mistaking the responses. Btw, this is my fourth year of solo on RH9/Fedora. I am pretty much the only person here who uses linux, and while I am not well-versed with many things, and know very little about hardware, I have to say that surviving solo would not have been possible without a mailing list as outstanding as this one!!! Thanks everybody! Btw, I have never used windoze in my life, except when on somebody else's machine:-) Many thanks and best wishes, Trotter --- Konstantin Svist <fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > >> -- > >> ____________________________________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz
