On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
> > don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
> > detected.
> So a 440bx motherboard with ECC ram is a non-standard PC?
I bet the board doesn't force you to use ECC RAM, so manufacturers will
not use it because it's too expensive and the average customer doesn't
understand what memory is and what it's used for. So yes, it's
non-standard.
Simon
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