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Date: | Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:22:00 -0500 |
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Herbert,
Now to you're board. Most 486 boards either did not use parity or
gave you
>the choice whether to use it or not in the bios. There ARE a few boards that
>have parity check enabled, those will require parity memory. In either case
>with memory the standard recommendation is get more of what you've got.
>However, if you have non-parity memory adding parity memory should NOT pose
>any problems. The only problem is if the board autodetects parity memory, if
>that's the case simply move the parity memory to another slot until the
>autodetect mechanism is looking at you're non-parity memory.
I've had a peek into the BIOS and found an option called "Memory Parity
Check". Is this the option you speak of? If so, that means I can disable
it and do alright with a mixture of Parity & Non Parity?
Thanks Herbert
Gary
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