Mirfster
Doesn't know what he's talking about
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Okay, so my beloved Dell C2100/FS12-TY Servers do not have UEFI support. While this has never bothered me before, I recently discovered that since there is not any UEFI my licensed copy of MemTest86 Pro will NOT do ECC checking (It will boot to the legacy version 4.3.7)...
Up until now, it really has not been a problem. I just burned in 16 x 8GB sticks of RAM and everything appeared fine in MemTest86. It wasn't until later that I found out that Dell was throwing warnings and errors about two sticks failing ECC. I have these sticks isolated on another C2100/FS12-TY and that system is telling me only one is actually having issues ("DIMM_A0: Memory Sensor, correctable ECC was asserted").
I will check to see if this is possibly a BIOS issue (since I had to downgrade the BIOS in order to run ESXi 6.0 U2), but am also considering a simple RAM burning scenario.
So I am looking to grab a SuperMicro board just for testing purposes with support for the following:
Up until now, it really has not been a problem. I just burned in 16 x 8GB sticks of RAM and everything appeared fine in MemTest86. It wasn't until later that I found out that Dell was throwing warnings and errors about two sticks failing ECC. I have these sticks isolated on another C2100/FS12-TY and that system is telling me only one is actually having issues ("DIMM_A0: Memory Sensor, correctable ECC was asserted").
I will check to see if this is possibly a BIOS issue (since I had to downgrade the BIOS in order to run ESXi 6.0 U2), but am also considering a simple RAM burning scenario.
So I am looking to grab a SuperMicro board just for testing purposes with support for the following:
- UEFI boot
- Needed to get the ECC Testing support of MemTest86
- Xeon 5500/5600 CPU Support
- Single CPU is fine
- Can hold at least 128 GB of DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600) ECC Memory
- Has IPMI