In message <p0602040cbcfa1f2bad20@[192.5.16.121]>, "Erik E. Fair" writes:
>At 11:29 -0400 6/19/04, Chris Ross wrote:
>
>>   That would suck.  Perhaps I should call Compaq.  However, I'm
>>not sure how much they'll care when I tell them "Memtest86+, a
>>free memory testing program I'm using, says that ECC is Off for
>>my 1850R.  It is said to require ECC memory, and it has such.
>>(compaq part # blah blah).  How do I fix it?"  I'm sure "you're
>>software is wrong" will be the first answer.  :-/
>
>"Well, this is a widely used memory testing tool and I have no reason 
>to doubt what it is reporting, and I'm sure that many of your 
>high-end server customers who insist on ECC RAM would be most 
>interested to know that while ECC is there, it's turned *off* and 
>that they're not getting the reliability that they paid for."
>
>I bet if you said something like that, you'd have their undivided attention.

Have you ever talked to anyone at Compaq?  I can't imagine any of the people
I talked to at HP or Compaq caring about this.  I mean, not that it's not a
good argument; they just struck me as dim.

-s