re: Memory parity error
Friday, June 6, 2008 at 11:58 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3617 messages posted)
|[...][Memory] Parity error blue screen when loading Windows 98SE.
|I noticed that the Safe Mode is working well.
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|After restart my computer, on normal mode, when charging programs[...]
|the blue screen appears with the message: Memory Parity Error.
| floalma
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Excellent troubleshooting technique. Good summary.
|I checked on the Safe Mode, the Device Manager, there is no problem.
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...and you just veered off into the ditch.
What you have is a HARDWARE problem (Bad RAM).
No amount of further SOFTWARE finageling will get you closer to a solution.
Parity is a very simple check,
constantly done on RAM to make sure it is working OK.
Note: For the longest time, the RAM in Apple computers (Motorola-based)
didn't have a parity bit and, as there was one less bit of stuff in them,
that RAM should have been (and often WAS) cheaper than x86 RAM.
What you HAVE demonstrated
is that the problem is kinda high in the memory address space.
Loading Windows in Safe Mode presents a lighter demand on RAM than Normal Mode
and is MUCH lighter on RAM use than Normal Mode + apps.
(If you continued to multi-task apps in Safe mode,
eventually you would encounter the error there.)
Imagine a bucket with a defect in it that can let water out.
The defect is not so low in the structure that you can't use the bucket at all,
you're just LIMITED by what you can do with it 'til the flaw becomes an issue.
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|............| <-- Normal Mode + apps
| <-- flaw
|............| <-- Normal Mode
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|............| <-- Safe Mode
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