Memory Parity Error

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From: Wailin Through The Nets
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 10:03

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	I have a three year old Z-158 which has intermittent occurances
	of memory parity failure.  This crashes the machine.  I've tried
	a few ram testing software programs, but they either report nothing
	as being wrong, or (nmi) scream about the parity chip being bad on
	the first bank (of three).

	I only have memory failures once a week or so and usually when I am
	doing something that is using almost all available memory on the
	machine.

	Along similar lines, having 3 banks of 256K ram should give me a
	total of 768Kb of memory -- yet 128 of that is unavailable as DOS
	can only deal with 640Kb.  Is there any method to utilize that RAM?
	Or is the XT architeture to blame?


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Subject: Memory Parity Error
Summary: +++ MEMORY PARITY FAILURE +++
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