Subject: Re: Physical memory tests?
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/1996 14:33:01
>Uhm, you have to have ECC *memory* before ECC on the motherboard
>chipset is going to do anything at all for you...  I would bet money
>you don't have ECC memory if you didn't specifically buy ECC memory
>for that motherboard.

An excellent point.  In fact both the memory and the machines
were a donation from Intel. I have no _idea_ what they gave;
just that  the memory I got doesn't work :)

Besides, at 64 bits wide, ECC memory doesn't require any more bits
than parity....