Intel W680 DDR5 and ECC Reporting
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Former_Abroad7819 · 2023-12-18 09:36

Good day everyone,

I am planning to update all my noisy and slow xeons to w680 for many
reasons.

To test, I bought just one, built it and was able to get a "working"
ECC but found that no reporting was available yet!

The question is, if ECC reporting is not implemented yet, how will the
OS know that there is corruption and lock or shutdown itself?

If a RAM stick in fault then it will corrupt the OS and anything else
in the way without the OS even noticing it, Im I missing something
here?

Does anyone have a stable and working am5 with 128gb ecc ram working
in correction and reporting?

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* Mobo Asus w680
* CPU 13900k stock
* Ram 128gb Kingston ECC 4800
* OS Debian 12 Kernel 6.5.13

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Legitimate_Farm_3095 · 2023-12-18 12:52

this has nothing to do with self hosting

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vermyx · 2023-12-18 14:53

ECC is for creating a fault tolerant system. ECC is checking with
memory access to validate the checksum. With faults, memory is written
elsewhere and your system becomes slower as it has to do extra work
with the checksuming but it keeps running. The OS alert is for telling
the human there’s an issue not telling the OS there’s a problem.
Rarely will you want to actually shutdown the OS with an ECC issue and
you never want to lock up the OS.

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kmisterk · 2023-12-18 17:25

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