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In article <212303603wnr@mhss.demon.co.uk> mhs@mhss.demon.co.uk "mhs" writes:

>In article: <30bba8b2.5624649@news.demon.co.uk>  tim-net@nurse.demon.co.uk
> writes:
>> 
>>       Could anyone be so kind as to explain what "Memory Parity Error" means?
>> What can be done to avoid them and, by implication, What causes them?
>
>Memory Parity Errors are when the parity bits in the memory modules do not
> agree with the actual 
>memory (parity is a method of error-checking).  If it occurs the computer could
> crash (ie will 
>is important work has not been saved), and I think the only thing that causes
> them is dodgy RAM.
>
>You can get memory with and without parity, and it makes no difference
> whatsoever.  If the 
>memory is wrong then it is wrong, and parity only tells the computer that it is
> wrong.  It will 
>still crash.

Yes, but the important distinction is that you know WHY it crashed !!!

This save you time and money in the long run !


>Don't worry, I believe its VERY rare.

OK dudes, hands up who's never had a parity error ?

And hands up who ever has had a machine that doesn't check RAM parity
and hasn't known if they had one or not ?

-- 
John Beardmore