Quote Originally Posted by cdawall View Post
i have a none /B board with a soldered BIOS chips and a couple chips one opty 2218 santa anna and 2 8346HE's

do i need ECC DDR2 to boot with the 2218 to flash the board to 0401 WS/b and boot with the 8346's?
Kind of. 22xx will run with non-ECC, but you may have to disable ECC in BIOS. Bit of a catch-22. I'm sure someone with the board will confirm/infirm soon