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- From: charness@healthy.uwaterloo.ca (Neil Charness)
- Subject: Re: Memory parity error detected. SYSTEM HALTED.
- Message-ID: <BuDKFr.9rE@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: WINDOWS 3.1, CRASH
- Sender: Neil Charness
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Sep10.133717.21198@funet.fi> <1992Sep10.162106.14993@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:23:50 GMT
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- I recently ran into something similar when switching motherboards.
- The newer AMI bios allows for a setting (in the advanced CMOS setup)
- of Decoupled Refresh Option. If it is enabled, try setting it to
- disabled. This eliminated my problem with memory parity errors
- completely. My dealer suggested that with slower SIMMs - 70ns - it
- may not be wise to set decoupled refresh to enabled. You suffer a
- slight performance hit, but not one noticeable with normal windows
- operations.
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- Neil Charness charness@healthy.uwaterloo.ca
- Univ. of Waterloo 519-885-1211, ext 3313
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