What are the differences in RAM?

Question

Iron

Colleagues, good afternoon.
what is the difference between EP3L-12800E and PC3L-12800S RAM,
both DDR3 low voltage and sodim
but EP3L does not work and PC3L works, what could be the matter?

Answer 1

EP3L-12800E is a server version of the memory, it has an error correction mechanism. Not all common motherboards can use ECC. Moreover, formally it can not be used, but some motherboards still do not work with ECC memory.

Answer 2

first - with ECC