LOS ANGELES — Desktop and notebook computers may need to adopt error-correcting code (ECC) memory to combat rising system crashes from single-bit memory errors, according to a confidential white paper written by Microsoft Corp. The software giant raised the issue in a panel discussion on memory at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here although it admits its data on system failures is still inconclusive.
For about four years Microsoft has been collecting data through its Online Crash Analysis (OCA) tool that reports system crashes to a Microsoft Web site.
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