re: Parity error (was: boot failure)
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:39 am
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Posted by gewg_
(3925 messages posted)
Here's how your post looks:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1255621866
It's obvious that you made an effort
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/post?1255621866
but you've allowed the DEFAULT behavior of the forum's HTML handler
to mangle what you've done.
The first 2 paragraphs here describe how YOU can take control:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552
jack hall wrote:
|[...]Desktop with 2 pc100 ram for total of 256 Megs ram[...]
|Scanreg restore, no help.
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It's NOT a *software* problem.
|Problem[:] On bootup fails with the message....
|"Memory parity error detected, system Halted".
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You have defective RAM.
The system is doing simple checksums on itself and is failing.[1]
In Safe Mode, what you were doing
didn't access high enough into the RAM address space to hit the bad spot.
If you ran a large enough app in that mode, you'd eventually encounter it.
|Funny, system won't work with one strip, must have both slots filled.
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That's the nature of the hardware architecture you have.
[1] Traditional Macs (Motorola CPU) use 8-bit memory instead of 9-bit RAM
so they don't have "a parity bit" to do this.
- Written in response to:
- boot failure (jack hall: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:51 am)
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