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veek
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Parity check 2
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Oct 26 03:40 UTC 2007 |
I am getting a parity check 2 message, with a Pentium 2.6 Gig processor
using 1 RAM stick 256MB. Is it a problem with the RAM. I enabled slow
boot and it checks the RAM, and there is no error at the count itself,
but after the count to 256MB is done i get: Parity Check 2
I googled and they say: "Parity error 2 is a error on an expansion
board"
Apparently, the chips on the mainboard/motherboard (BIOS ROM chip) give
a Parity error 1 xxxx:xxxx if they have a problem BUT what about PCI
boards, or video RAM from AGP etc..?? Aren't those boards expansion
boards too??
Any reading resources??
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gull
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response 1 of 4:
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Oct 29 18:17 UTC 2007 |
It's probably a bad RAM stick. RAM "expansion boards" don't really
exist anymore, but it used to be anything above 640K would be on a
separate board.
If you want to do more testing, try MEMTEST86+: http://www.memtest.org/
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veek
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response 2 of 4:
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Oct 30 13:30 UTC 2007 |
thanks jep. Re memtest: this was failing before the CD could be loaded..
Doesn't video memory form a part of RAM?? Is it checked by the BIOS??
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gull
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response 3 of 4:
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Oct 31 01:10 UTC 2007 |
It depends. It used to be the two were completely separate, and the
BIOS didn't concern itself with video memory. Now some low-end AGP
cards will take part of main RAM as their memory.
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veek
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response 4 of 4:
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Oct 31 13:24 UTC 2007 |
Thanks David. (excuse the jep snafu, was a bit tired - virii busting)
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