From: "Robert Comer" 

> Was it to keep windows 95 from crashing left and right?

Non-ECC is cheaper.

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Bob Comer





"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4538d134$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Most computers today aren't even setup to run with ECC so putting ECC
> memory in one of these computers either wouldn't provide ECC benefit or
> would keep the computer from even booting.  Isn't this correct?
>
> Funny, it used to be that all motherboards were ECC memory, then windows
> 95 came in and suddenly all motherboards were non-ECC.  Now a new version
> of windows wants to go back to ECC??  Why did we ever leave ECC to begin
> with? Was it to keep windows 95 from crashing left and right?
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:4538c60c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> It would be a good thing if all memory were ECC ( overclocking  gamers
>> would hate it though).  I doubt many of the low to mid end system
>> builders will use ECC and it will be interesting to see how much a bad
>> rap Vista gets due to flacky memory
>>
>>
>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>> news:1obhj21b1g6bf2mpfv5f7njef031uls63v{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:54:12 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"

>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Nearly two years ago I met with Jim Allchin, co-President
Platforms and
>>>>Services Division at Microsoft who headed the Vista
development effort,
>>>>and
>>>>Jim said Vista should only be used with ECC memory.
Virtually every OEM
>>>>had
>>>>a fit and PR folks piled on Jim so he wouldn't say that anymore.
>>>>However, my
>>>>own experience with Vista suggests he may have been right.
>>>
>>>  Ahhh ... the wisdom of the pajama consultant!
>>>
>>> "Vista uses memory aggressively and if there is a memory
error it will
>>> blue
>>> screen."
>>>
>>>   And what OS wouldn't blue screen?   It must be that Vista is accessing
>>> memory in different patterns that escaped previous usage and testing
>>> patterns.   This is like the old OS/2 days where OS/2 was the bad guy
>>> because it tested all the RAM on the PC and crashed left and right.
>>
>>
>
>

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