Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:18521 comp.arch:23100 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi!caen!uwm.edu!uwvax!pipe.cs.wisc.edu!lee From: lee@pipe.cs.wisc.edu (Soo Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.arch Subject: Re: parity is for farmers? Message-ID: <1991Jun5.215703.108@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 21:57:03 GMT References: <1991Jun4.143404.17535@sobeco.com> <1991Jun5.005019.23499@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun5.155332.485@interlan.Interlan.COM> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 14 In article <1991Jun5.155332.485@interlan.Interlan.COM> jak@interlan.interlan.com writes: > > I have had parity errors on two of 'my' machines, both 386-AT style > boxes -- one at home, one at work. In both cases, I found the > parity errors to be real. The errors broke down like this: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was a TRUE BLUE believer and am having IBM PC. But I had bad memory problem which occurs one year later after buying it. The problem was infrequent crash for different size of programs. I spent a couple of days until I wrote a very short asm program to check memory in 4 different test modes on user area and I was shocked about my findings. Of course, I definitely invest my extra money to go after parity memory! ;-| Soo lee@cs.wisc.edu