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Re: Parity check error-What is it? HELP PLEASE!

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From: Fred Ecks
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 22:36
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In article <kozu0003.769894089@gold> kozu0003@gold.tc.umn.edu (John T Kozubik) writes:
>Why is this happening?  How can I prevent it?  what should I do when it
>does this?

This has been happening to quite a few computers over the last week or
so.  The partial solar eclipse affected the earth's magnetic field, thus
realigning some cells in the cheaper memory chips.

If you turn your computer so it faces North, that should fix it.

 - Fred
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From: fredx@netcom.com (Fred Ecks)
Subject: Re: Parity check error-What is it? HELP PLEASE!
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