re: Parity error (was: boot failure)
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jack hall
(288 messages posted)
Thanks guy. Was memory. Failed before but I've never seen an error box like that
before. Good machine, but getting out dated.
On Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:39 am, gewg_ wrote:
>Here's how your post looks:
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1255621866
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>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
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>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.
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>|Problem[:] On bootup fails with the message....
>|"Memory parity error detected, system Halted".
>|
>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.
>|
>That's the nature of the hardware architecture you have.
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>[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.
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