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Memory Parity Blue Screen Error!
Name: hockeywarrior Date: August 10, 2005 at 12:05:05 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1.37 ghz, 768
Comment:
For a while now, whenever i try to watch a movie using any media player, my computer instantly crashes to a blue screen which displays this error message:
*** Hardware Malfunction Call your hardware vender for support NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error *** The system has halted ***
Occasionally, it will do this during games like Unreal Tournament 2004 while im playing. I haven't been able to get to the bottom of this, so anyone who has any ideas please let me know!
Name: Rick McNabb Date: August 10, 2005 at 12:37:40 Pacific
Reply:
Do you have any ECC memory chips in your system? Are all your memory chips same type/speed??
You can try to go to BIOS settings and disable parity check if it is available.
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Response Number 2
Name: hockeywarrior Date: August 10, 2005 at 14:00:34 Pacific
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I'm sorry, im not an extremely advanced computer user! ECC memory chips? I don't know what those are. Also, how do i access the BIOS settings, and more importantly, what is a "parity check?". Thanks for your help!
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Response Number 3
Name: hockeywarrior Date: August 10, 2005 at 14:01:56 Pacific
Reply:
Wait, do you mean RAM upgrades and such? because i did get a ram upgrade a bit ago...
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Response Number 4
Name: wanderer Date: August 11, 2005 at 13:09:00 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like a ram failure. NMI stands for non maskable interrupt which means the system experienced a error it wasn't able to recover from. This is hardware failure.
I would not change your bios settings.
My suggestion would be to either pull the ram stick that was added or take it into the shop for further diagnostics.
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Response Number 5
Name: hockeywarrior Date: August 17, 2005 at 13:51:27 Pacific
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How do i find out which type of memory is right for my system? I think i bought the wrong type! Thanks again for your help.
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