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From: grege@gold.gvg.tek.com (Greg Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Parity Error.  What do I do?
Message-ID: <1689@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 01:22:48 GMT
References: <73334@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA  95945
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In article <73334@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> beckman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Peter Beckman) writes:
>Memory parity interrupt at
>0BC6:006D
>type (S)hut NMI (R)eboot, other keys to continue
>
>I have a 386/33, Phoenix Bios, 4 Meg in SIMMS, and since I rebooted, I
>can't recreate it.  What should I do?
>

If your BIOS auto-sizes RAM (as most do), start popping-out SIMMS until the
error goes away. Now you've located the bad SIMM. Take it to work/school
and ''exchange it'' [just kidding].

Be aware that you will need to move them around to get contiguous RAM. This
trick *WONT* work if your system uses 1Mx9 SIMMS; I suspect your system uses
the 256Kx36 format so you probably don't need to worry.

Also, try the (S)hut option. Sounds like it will silence future parity
errors so you can boot and run stuff < 1M.