Help please.....RAM parity error

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From: mic119y
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1991 05:34

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I posted this once before but got no replies so I shall try again:

The machine:
SKAI-286, 12MHz, NEAT chip set, Award BIOS, 640K RAM, 1.2MbFDD, 360Kb FDD,
21Mb MFM HDD

The problem:
When trying to print a largish (9 cols x 60 rows) table from WordPerfect 5.1
we usually get the following message and the machine locks up:

        RAM PARITY ERROR.CHECKING FOR SEGMENT ADDRESS..
        OFFENDING SEGMENT:8000

Various chip testing software we have tried ALL report the RAM chips to be OK.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem PLEASE.

Tony Stott
Department of Microbiology
Monash University
Clayton 3168
Australia

e-mail: mic119y@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

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