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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: RAM under FreeBSD 2.0.5
Date: 15 Jan 1996 20:59:29 -0000
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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cubeur@pressimage.net (Dadure  Arnaud) writes:

>i have 32 Mo of Ram on my pc under FreeBSD 2.0.5
>and when i put 8Mo more (2x4Mo) my PC tells me i
>have 40Mo.. ok.. but FreeBSD panic as :

>panic: RAM Parity error..

You probablt have put non-parity simms in, and left parity
checking on, perhapse in the BIOS, you should turn this off,
or get simms with parity. ( Alternatively your simms may be
dead ).

	David.