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by rincebrain 3349 days ago
I should have perhaps included the article which tried _enabling and using_ ECC on a Ryzen CPU+MB. [1]

Page 5 is perhaps the most important one, where it observes that neither Windows nor Linux appear to react by halting to a UE, and Windows can't quite figure out that ECC is enabled on the platform and parse the notifications it gets as such.

So, sure, I should concede that it is "enabled" on all parts, I was wrong. But that doesn't mean it should be trusted on any of them.

[1] - http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...

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I guess we can agree to disagree. AMD implementing it, motherboard mfgs implementing it, but Windows not having an updated driver to handle it in all situations isn't on AMD. And it doesn't mean it's not there - it means that Windows is lagging slightly behind on a brand new platform. Something that's been fairly common with AMD for decades now. There's a reason the acronym Wintel became a thing.