Comment 122 for bug 422536

@nolo

Sorry to hear about your experience, I had the luxury of having a dual boot system, so all I had to do is download the utility from the mobo web site a flash from windows OS. Updating a BIOS should not be an uncommon thing these days, I did it for my XBOX, several Mobos in the last month, and also my cell phone, which I flash about every month now. But that's just me.

I do BIOS updates on a common occurrence, so I apologize if I caused anyone to have to suffer by recommending a BIOS update.

One thing I do want to make clear is that if you read up on ECC, you will know that you do NOT have to have ECC RAM in order to be able to set it in the BIOS. ECC is just a software algorithm for detecting errors in your RAM, which is possible for most all RAM today, not just ECC RAM. I think there is even ECC RAM which doesn't support ECC Mode, which again is just a way to report errors to your OS that there are problems occurring with your RAM. Linux, as well as Windows support ECC reporting to alert the user when errors in their RAM occur.

My thing is that everyone should do a little solid investigating before jumping to conclusions that drivers are at fault, as you will only waste your time and possibly a developers by steering ppl in the wrong direction. The Ubuntu team will fix this if it is on their end. Ubuntu is a community tool, so those of us having the problem should do our part to help the developers fix, as they probably have more pressing bugs to fix. It is possible to be a hardware issue, there are only 100 or so reports of this bug, which is NOT a lot, compared to all the possible hardware combos out there.