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sharper
Journeyman III

Definitive statement on ECC support for Non-PRO Ryzen 5000 series AM4 APUs

I'm just trying to get a definitive yes or no on whether or not the non-PRO Ryzen 5000 Series APUs (for socket AM4) support ECC memory.  I know such support is dependent on the motherboard properly implementing this feature and the feature is not officially supported.  I just want to know if it will work, given I'm running unbuffered ECC DDR4 RAM that is listed on a given motherboards QVL.  This is no clear guidance on this issue.  Asus's page on this topic is unclear:
https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1045186/

and this YouTube video from Wendell at Level1Techs implies that it >IS< supported, but not by every motherboard (comments start @8:45 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExMZ6f-p8hM&t=624

In my particular case I am running a X570D4U-2L2T with the latest BIOS.  Under Ubuntu 22.04 my Ryzen 7 3700X reports that the EDAC module is loaded, and dmi-decode -t memory spits out "Error correction: multi-bit ECC".  But with my Ryzen 7 5700G (which runs fine otherwise) tells me "Error Correction: none" and "EDAC: no memory controller found".  I suppose that gives me my answer right there, but I would like an official yes or no, so I know if it's just that this motherboard doesn't support these APUs for ECC operation, of if they are incapable of supporting ECC on ANY motherboard.

Thanks, 
Steve Harper


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