Hi, I am running Memtest86+ on a machine and notice that 2 of the 4 DIMMS claim to be ECC. I did not know that these non-ECC and ECC memory can work together.
What are your thoughts about this memory scenerio?
Not recommended, does the system support it? I suspect it’s all running as non ECC.
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Yeah, personally, I wouldn’t do it, would expect it could contribute to system instability. Best case, it’s going to degrade the ECC memory to not perform ECC functions, from what I’ve been able to find.
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I purchased the machine with the DIMMS in this configuration.
Thank you for this information.
Tumbleweed has been installed on the machines HDD and appears to be running well. There was an issue though yesterday where the machine halted at some point and I could not switch to TTY (required hard boot). When doing some user configurations. Perhaps this may be what contributed to that?
@panorain could very well be. Check the system specs about ECC and Non-ECC ram. Also google “mixing EEC ram with non-ECC ram”.
I was able to locate 2 x4 GiB DIMMS which are non-ECC out of a spare memory kit here. So I installed them into the machine which now has all 4 DIMMS non-ECC type. One of the DIMMS is A-DATA brand not Samsung brand. Switched to memtest86 (which does not display DIMM is ECC or non-ECC but better memory test?) testing and 9 passes completed with no errors.
Worked on the Tumbleweed install on the machine today with no lockups or freezes.
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