Reply 44320 of 52759, by PC Hoarder Patrol
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WJG6260 wrote on 2022-05-03, 00:15:The D850EMV2, however, is a monster of a board. It's stable, fast, and really easy to work with. It's surprisingly modern, offering something akin to today's "fast boot" and boy does it boot fast! I appreciate that this board can drive the 3.06GHz Northwood with HT, and I've got one on the way just to see how it does. Unfortunately, however, I have discovered that this board--whilst being of late enough revision to natively run PC1066--cannot handle more than 1.5GB of PC1066 RAM, confirmed by the issues another fellow member of the forum had here. (Check out this build by the way, it's quite nice!) Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is the case? Apparently, it's fine with 2GB of PC800, and other RDRAM boards based on the i850E are good to go with 2GB of PC1066.
Are your RDRAM RIMMs (PC1066-32P) ECC or non-ECC, as the board is known to support 2GB (albeit rather grudgingly) with PC1066-32P ECC...http://wp.xin.at/archives/tag/d850emvr