https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:50:14 +0000 Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:48:09 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=26925 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108127&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108127 Author: eccential
Subject: 26925
Posted: 28 Oct 2023 at 4:48am

Agreed. Without official statement, it can stop working after any random BIOS update, and you'd be screwed.

I'm also no longer interested in AsRockRack boards, because their support is like the 10th thought.

The last official BIOS release for my X470D4U is from Aug, 2021, with AGESA 1.2.0.0. Even the last beta BIOS stopped at Jun, 2022 at AGESA 1.2.0.7.

Consumer boards went past that to 8, A, and now at 1.2.0.B. Most of the latter releases contain security fixes, which I'd think is MORE important for AsRockRack boards.
]]> Sat, 28 Oct 2023 04:48:09 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108127&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108127 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108124&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108124 Author: rokk
Subject: 26925
Posted: 28 Oct 2023 at 3:04am

I also need both correction and reporting to work. The thing is it seems to work unofficially, the blog post I linked above links to a thread on this forum where the user actually shorted pins and got error reports.

Not good enough for me though, I do need official confirmation...]]> Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:04:22 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108124&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108124 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108118&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108118 Author: eccential
Subject: 26925
Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 5:03pm

As far as I'm concerned, AsRock (marketing? bean counters? who cares?) has made their decision, with not mentioning explicit ECC support with AM5 generation.

That's one of the reasons why I've not purchased a single AM5 board, even though I own ten AsRock (including one AsRockRack) AM4 boards.

As I understand, even on AsRock AM4 boards, the error reporting doesn't work properly unless you're using PRO CPU/APU. Correction works with regular CPU, which is better than nothing. ECC simply doesn't work with regular APU, but that is true for all vendors and has been known forever.

If I'm buying a new board, I'm going for the "SUS" brand, as what I'm reading online says theirs work for both correcting and reporting, when their spec states support, even on non-PRO CPUs. Again, PRO is required for APUs as before.


Edited by eccential - 27 Oct 2023 at 5:05pm]]> Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:03:50 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108118&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108118 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108110&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108110 Author: rokk
Subject: 26925
Posted: 27 Oct 2023 at 2:15am

I recently read a post from a user that discovered that his B650E PG Riptide already supported ECC RAM.

There's a long post about this but the general backstory is that this needed an updated AGESA, and apparently this has already happened, and it's working on his board.

If AGESA was indeed the fix, can we expect to see official ECC support declared somewhere soon?

(I mean real ECC including bus, not just on-die ECC) ]]> Fri, 27 Oct 2023 02:15:56 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=26925&PID=108110&title=update-on-am5-ecc-support#108110