mrluckypants96
Limp Gawd
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- Oct 6, 2015
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Alright, I'm in need of a bit of tech support. So for my gaming system I've got a Xeon E5-2680 v1 installed in an MSI X79 OEM board used for the Alienware Aurora R4. Now, I want to use some spare DDR3 ECC memory I had lying around to replace the non-ECC stuff I had previously (for reliability reasons. Also I just want all my systems to have the same RAM, because I'm OCD like that). However, the board won't POST if ECC RAM is installed.
It's not a CPU issue, as my server is using the same RAM with a pair of 2670 v1's. This leaves the motherboard as the only possible incompatibility. But don't the Xeon's have IMC's with ECC support? How does the motherboard stop POSTing with memory that the processor supports?
I don't even get a POST beep code. The fans spin, and that's it. No beeps, no lights on the GPU, nothing.
Any clues as to how to fix this?
It's not a CPU issue, as my server is using the same RAM with a pair of 2670 v1's. This leaves the motherboard as the only possible incompatibility. But don't the Xeon's have IMC's with ECC support? How does the motherboard stop POSTing with memory that the processor supports?
I don't even get a POST beep code. The fans spin, and that's it. No beeps, no lights on the GPU, nothing.
Any clues as to how to fix this?