ASRock X470 TaiChi, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X setup and ECC memory support

This looks remarkably like the system I’ve just put together…

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700X
  • Motherboard: ASRock X470 Taichi
  • GPU: GT 710 (for testing)
  • Storage: Samsung 970 Pro 512GB M.2 (MZ-V7P512BW)

(…and the part you’re likely to be interested in…)

They aren’t specifically listed in any of ASRock’s QVL reports for the motherboard, but reports from other X470 Taichi owners suggested they work just fine. My testing under Windows confirm these reports.


(“6” is “Multi-bit ECC”)



So far, so good. However my intention is to run Linux (Ubuntu) on the system full time. This is where I’ve run into some problems.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | grep 'edac\|EDAC\|Linux version'
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.3.0-18-generic (buildd@lcy01-amd64-027) (gcc version 9.2.1 20190909 (Ubuntu 9.2.1-8ubuntu1)) #19-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 8 20:14:06 UTC 2019 (Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1)
[    0.197969] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0

If it were working properly, I’d expect to see something more like the results in this post.