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From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory Parity. Is It Really Needed
Message-ID: <3370017@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 05:40:09 GMT
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/ steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) /  8:34 pm  Mar 19, 1991 /
writes:

> I installed them into my 386, disabled parity checking and it worked fine. 
> 
> The question is, is parity really needed, and if so what am I going to be
> missing out on.
> 
You will miss nothing if your memory and you PC system play well together.
If not, you could get one or more of the following:

	[1] Unexpected program behaviour ranging from crashing system
	    to uncontrollable activities (??).
	[2] Loss of data or storing corrupted data.
	[3] Loss of hair ?? (trying to figure out what is going on  ;-))
	... (may be more ...).

Because by turning off parity check, your system doesn't have the hardware
feature to catch any memory failure. And any such failure will shows up
and something else dubious.

Anyway, I've got a friend who uses his PC system with no parity for
more than a year now and he's fine.


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