Will Non-ECC work on an ECC board?

Andrew Muir · 08-23-2005, 10:29 PM

I have just got my hands on a Dell PowerEdge 600SC (with no RAM) which takes ECC RAM. Do you know if Non-ECC RAM would still work on the board, all be it without the parity check nonsence.
Thanks...

alanuofm · 08-23-2005, 11:11 PM

should work but there is no reason you shouldnt get ecc ram. its only a little bit more.

**apj101** · 08-23-2005, 11:17 PM

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should work but there is no reason you shouldnt get ecc ram. its only a little bit more.

well depending on what he uses it for, the error correction code will prob be useless.

There is a chance you can use non-ecc ram, it a bit of a hit and miss, your bios will prob support it. Are you intending on mixing???

Andrew Muir · 08-23-2005, 11:30 PM

No I dont want to mix non-ECC with ECC the only reason I want to use non is that i have a spare 512 stick. I dont really need the added features of ECC, all i intend using it for it for my university studies. Setting up a web server and PHP, MySQL applications. Thanks for all your swift responces by the way.

**apj101** · 08-23-2005, 11:45 PM

unless its a heavy server then you dont need ecc, so go ahead and try you 512 stick the worst that will happen is that it wont work if the bios doesn;t like it

bigsaucybob · 08-24-2005, 05:28 AM

well i have dell and i was interested in buying memory for my computer and in the dell manual it says specifically do not install ECC memory.

**Praetor** · 08-26-2005, 04:41 PM

For the most part, machines that are designed for ECC memory (or nonECC memory) dont like it when you feed them the other type of memory

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08-23-2005, 11:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
alanuofm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,630	should work but there is no reason you shouldnt get ecc ram. its only a little bit more.

08-23-2005, 11:30 PM	#4 (permalink)
Andrew Muir New Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2	No I dont want to mix non-ECC with ECC the only reason I want to use non is that i have a spare 512 stick. I dont really need the added features of ECC, all i intend using it for it for my university studies. Setting up a web server and PHP, MySQL applications. Thanks for all your swift responces by the way.