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In article <30bcf7ec.2859340@pubnews.demon.co.uk>
           tim-net@nurse.demon.co.uk  writes:

>        Thanks for the answers to the original question. I've only had problems
>under Windows (which, incidentally, I HATE),

A man of taste and distinction !  ( Try NT or Warp though, not half so
bad ! )


> and that only recently. I have
>8Mb RAM installed in 9 pin SIMMS which have caused no problems for the last
>12 months, when I upgraded from 4Mb.

9 chip simms suggests parity checking if all the chips are the same type.
Maybe parity faking if not.


> However, only recently I've had a
>string of hangs where the 'puter has just locked up on me under Windows. On
>pressing Ctrll-Alt-Del  windows reports "This appplication ... stopped
>responding..." etc followed by a "Memory Parity Error - System Halted"
>message...

This illustrated the benefit of parity checking perfectly.  You now know
that you have a hardware fault and that reseating the simms or throwing
some money at a new one !

If you didn't know that, you could spend weeks farting about reinstalling
windows, rebuilding file systems and generally having a bad time while
wondering how you got it configured so wrong.

In my view, not using parity checking just isn't professional. Even if
the RAM were reliable enough to justify it, the sockets aren't !

-- 
John Beardmore