Turn off ECC?

[Wombat]

So, I have a 128MB stick of ECC RAM, and I was wondering if I can not use the ECC? I have a 64MB stick, non-ECC, that I'd like to run with it.

[Dyre]

Read my Sig, doing the same thing. Just pluged it in. Works great

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[This message has been edited by Dyre (edited 25 January 2000).]

[Rags]

Hawkeye,

It *should* work fine, just so long as you have ECC disabled in your BIOS (it slows things down anyhow )

Rags

[Genom]

Actually, ECC automatically turns itself off if there is some mem that is NOT ECC in there with it too, so the BIOS is a moot point unless ya have only ECC chips in there.


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[Jorden]

Wombat, just check if your Eclipse/mobo combo needs ECC enable RAM or not. Ah, according to Mike you can use any good PC100 RAM on it, so it doesn't matter if it's ECC or not. Just do as Matt says and disable ECC checking in the BIOS

Jord.