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garyinthehouse
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September 19th, 2003 03:00
Memory Parity Error
HI, I have a Dimension 8100 series with a P4 at 1.3, and 640 Mgs of RDRAM running WIN XP PRO. I also have a Geforce 2 MX/400, and a SB Live sound card. But here is my problem. Alomst every time I shut my PC down, i get a blue screen, and white font that says "Memory Parity Error, System Halted"
This has slowley been happening more, and more latley. The last time this happened, my Win XP log off screen froze, and that was it.
You know when you shut of your system you can hear it shut off, ie hard drive stopping to spin, and fans stopping, etc. Well my pc, you can hear the HD stop, but for some reason the fans stay on.
Well please tell me there is an actuall way to fix this, if there isn't, is it going to hurt my PC? or shut off in the middle of my Homework? Thanks
P.S. a couple months back i upgraded my RAM from 128 to 640, but the problem was still happening, by the way i used the same brand memory when i upgraded. (SAMSUNG)
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Posted September 19th, 2003 11:00
I have had this same problem in the past. I tried all the troubleshooting suggestions in the referenced knowledgebase article, but none of them seemed to solve the problem. I finally eliminated an "ancient" parallel printer cable from my setup when I replaced a printer with a USB-cable connected printer, and haven't had any problems since then.
Incidentally, in the research into the problem, I found that when this specific message appears, the Windows OS has completely shutdown. You can turn power off to the system at this point with no problem, and the next boot up should be uneventful.
Roy
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Posted September 19th, 2003 13:00
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"P.S. a couple months back i upgraded my RAM from 128 to 640, but the problem was still happening, by the way i used the same brand memory when i upgraded. (SAMSUNG)"
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From this comment, I gather that the problem was occurring with the original RAM before you upgraded. Have you tried pulling the old (2x64mb) RIMMS, replace them with your original CRIMMS and see if the problem stops?
It's possible you have a bad (original) RIMM.....
Good luck
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Posted September 19th, 2003 19:00
Thanks, ill try some of these, and see if they help!
Again thanks for all your help!
HardyHar
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Posted September 19th, 2003 04:00
garyinthehouse,
Take a look at this document here for problem solving.