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ECC Ram,compatible motherboards?

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Hi,i bought some ram on Ebay but he conveniently forgot to mention it was 'ECC Registered'ram,and i didn't know about my board taking 'non-ECC' only,every other detail of the ram he said in auction was fine.So, i was just going to resell it but i thought mmm,im needing to update motherboard anyway i'll just try and get a Mobo to suit the ram,this isn't so easy looking around,does this ram have to be used in computers used as servers or are there AMD processor based Mobo,s for a desktop PC that will do?,incidentally it would have to be either a Via chipset based board or i think its SIS845 based or maybe just SIS in general,hope someone can help,cheers,Lee.

Name: jam
Date: August 16, 2004 at 16:06:48 Pacific

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Sell it off, get "normal" RAM & find a decent board to go with it

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