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- From: pugliese@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Marco Pugliese)
- Subject: Re: 8Mb and Win3.1 crashes (HELP)
- References: <1992Nov25.121102.2693@odin.diku.dk> <24221@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:55:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.125520.27310@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
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- bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
-
- >Jesper Honig Spring (spring@diku.dk) wrote:
- >:
- >: Hello,
- >:
- >: I have just completed an 8Mb RAM installation on my i486. Then I reinstalled
- >: Windows 3.1 and Word 2.0. Then suddenly the system halted with an error
- >: message like this: Parity error system halted.
- >:
- >: I have tested the new RAM chips with CMOS own check (the boot-up check) an
- >: it reports no errors on the chips.
- >:
- >: Can anybody tell me what to do or what might be the problem.
-
- >This problem shows up if you mix 9-chip SIMMs with the 3-chip variety.
- >It's a refresh problem that only affects protect mode programs...like
- >Windows. No RAM tester will report an error...
-
- >Bill Neisius
- >bill@solaria.hac.com
-
- I had exactly the same problem upgrading my 486-33 from 4Mb. up to 8Mb. and I
- got rid of it merely changing the RAM chips (SIMM) !
- Parity errors are quite allways broken chips errors.
-
- Ciao.
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