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ecc memory check..

Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:05 pm

I need some help. :oops:

I've got a c236 motherboard from Supermicro along with an i3-6100.

It's a strange pairing, but it should work well for my purposes..

-the thing is, the Bios is absolute sh...

It's honestly worse than any Bios I've seen since about 1998 (..and probably worse than that).

It's got a LOT of functions - but it's also missing some of the most stupid-obvious things, the big one being no mention of ECC memory. (..just listing the memory in the Bios.)

Now I've got 2 sticks of 16 gig ECC Unbuffered memory in it (that Supermicro has said is good for the m-board). The thing is I want to know if it's actually using the ECC memory AS ECC memory. (..though I'm not sure if most Bios would even provide you with that.)


SO.. I found this page:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ality-462/

Referencing this thread:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1693051


My (current) problem to see if my memory is working as ECC memory *appears* to be with compiling.

NOTE: I couldn't use any flavor of Ubuntu (video drivers are missing for the i3-6100), so I'm using the latest Live version of Fedora with Plasma

I've done (at listed at the bottom of the page in the pugetsystems web-page):

1. Copy to Desktop of the "ALL Files" .c text-program.
2. used cd Desktop (..CD Desktop didn't work).

and now the 3rd step (compiling the program) with gcc ecc_check.c -o ecc_check, doesn't seem to be working.

I get this:

bash: gcc: command not found
[liveuser@localhost Desktop]$


Any ideas?

(Note: I'm a complete Noob to the Linux terminal and programming.)
 
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Re: ecc memory check..

Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:35 pm

I think last time I used self-bootable memtest to confirm ECC mode is on.
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Re: ecc memory check..

Mon Jan 04, 2016 8:37 pm

IIRC, Supermicro boards will show it using ECC on the post message.
 
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Re: ecc memory check..

Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:03 pm

Bash can't find gcc, so it's either not in your $PATH or not installed. Try
sudo dnf install gcc

and try again.

As for the efficacy of the test I am clueless.
 
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Re: ecc memory check..

Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:29 pm

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf install gcc

-it wanted to go online, and this system isn't setup for that yet. (..it gave me a: "failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates' from....")

Any workarounds? (I can install files from usb flash).
 
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Re: ecc memory check..

Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:50 pm

Flying Fox wrote:
I think last time I used self-bootable memtest to confirm ECC mode is on.


Thanks for this.

I had in GPT UEFI for it, and apparently it was moving directly to a CPU test with a really fast count-down. :oops:

This time I "caught" the count-down and moved the mouse to "Config." soon enough - and sure enough - ECC is "on".

Yeah! :D



Thanks guys!
 
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Re: ecc memory check..

Tue Jan 05, 2016 6:25 am

A little late to this party, but with Linux you can also grep through the system logs for any mention of "EDAC" (which stands for Error Detection And Correction). The messages tagged with that string should give you an indication of whether the Linux kernel detected and enabled ECC capability or not.

Very surprised about the video driver issue on Ubuntu; it seem more likely that the driver is present, but for whatever reason it is not detecting the IGPU properly. You should be able to force the correct driver (or at least a generic frame buffer driver) with a kernel boot parameter, but it sounds like you got Fedora to work so I guess it doesn't matter.

Edit: Ahh, the 6100 is brand spanking new. Not surprised that Ubuntu doesn't detect the IGPU properly. This should get fixed in the next release.

Yeah, many distros don't install the compiler (or other tools/files required to build from source, e.g. header files) by default. On Ubuntu (or any Debian derivative) you can pull them all in with the command "apt-get install build-essential". Not sure what the equivalent is in the Redhat/Fedora ecosystem.
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