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Memory Parity Failure

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I turned on my 286 Zenith this morning & it displayed this error for a few seconds & the screen went totally blank. I rebooted numerous times & nothing, just a blank screen. Last week, before it died, it told me I had more memory in the pc than was actually in the machine. Anyone know what parity failure means?

Name: Michael
Date: May 12, 2002 at 08:23:50 Pacific

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Parity is a means for memory to check itself for errors. If you get a parity error then most likely a stick of memory is bad and needs to be replaced. -Michael

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Clean the contacts and try it again before you give up on the "bad" memory. (unless memory is soldered into a 286 or something)

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