boot failure Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:51 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jack hall (288 messages posted) IBM Net Vista with98SE and shipped with 98SE. Desktop with 2 pc100 ram for total of 256 Megs ram. Fine for last 5 years with I.E. 6.0. Probably means nothing but problem occurred one day after after installing Firefox 2. xxx. I've since removed it in safe mode. Scanreg restore, no help. Been thru Google and the answers are all over the book. Problem. On bootup fails with the message.... "Memory parity error detected, system Halted". Any direction to go? Funny, system won't work with one strip, must have both slots filled. I did upgrade about 3 years ago from 128 to 256. ' Jack.... Responses to this message: re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (gewg_: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:39 am) All messages in this thread [show all] boot failure (jack hall: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 8:51 am) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (gewg_: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 10:39 am) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (jack hall: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 11:21 am) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (Arminius: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 8:31 pm) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (Kiwi: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 9:58 pm) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (jack hall: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 3:50 pm) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (Arminius: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 7:22 pm) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (jack hall: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 4:07 pm) re: Parity error (was: boot failure) (gewg_: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 6:27 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum