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May 12, 2009 at 02:57 PM
martinbullock15

ECC and NON-ECC memory

by martinbullock15 . Updated 17 years, 1 month ago

Hi

I upgraded my desktop awhile ago and it’s never worked correctly as i would keep getting the blue screen with STOP Errors 0x9c 0x4e and i could not understand what piece of hardware was causing this, then i was looking around at pages on the internet about memory as i was going to upgrade and i started looking at the specs of the memory concerning ECC and Non-ECC.

Then i looked at the spec of my motherboard (Abit KN8 SLI) which says Non-ECC Memory then i looked at the spec of the memory i have installed (2x 512 Kingston 400 – which was from my old build) and this is apparently ECC.

So the question is could this difference be causing the hardware failure? As my motherboard says Non-ECC and the memory is ECC?

Thanks in advance

Martin

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