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by kishorebkvr

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Im having an Dell Optiplex XM590 Pentium system with 90 mhz with 16mb ram ,later on i upgraded the processor to 100 Mhz and Ram to 64 Mb 16 x 4 Edo's now i installed win98se os in my system.. sometimes im getting an error message "Parity Error" System Halted, i suspect it may be problem with RAM and when i created a swap file its i mean viritual memory its fine..what is the prob and why im getting the Parity error as and when i get the error theres no way i need to restart the system how can istop it.

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by 1stladytech

You should check you bios settings to turn off parity checking on the ram. The system probably had parity ram to start with, but EDO ram is non-parity, so it would generate the error even if good.

Good luck,

Vickie

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