Posts from 2025
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On ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen
(Read more...)Last time, I talked about how a bad stick of RAM drove me into buying ECC RAM for my Ryzen 9 3900X home server build—mostly that ECC would have been able to detect that something was wrong with the RAM and also correct for single-bit errors, which would have saved me a ton of headache.
Now that I’ve received the RAM and ran it for a while, I’ll write about the entire experience of getting the RAM working and my attempts to cause errors to verify the ECC functionality.
Spoilers: Injecting faults was way harder than it appeared from online research.