Parity error
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So, my computer crashed and reported a parity error last week and before I write 8 paragraphs about what exactly happened, I'll just ask the tl;dr version:
Assuming it's an isolated incident, the computer works normally and basic tests were completed successfully, could there still be an underlying problem? Should I be worried?
Here's the long version:
Assuming it's an isolated incident, the computer works normally and basic tests were completed successfully, could there still be an underlying problem? Should I be worried?
Here's the long version:
Spoiler:
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Have you tried taking out all the RAM and adding them one by one? To isolate the issue.
From the looks of it a Parity Error only happens when you have dodgy RAM I know that Memtest sometimes doesn't pick up on bad RAM (rare), also you may have to run a deeper test I've had countless sticks of bad ram that checked out fine but only on closer inspection I found defects.
Could also be a problem with how the game handles memory too which causes your RAM to freak out.
From the looks of it a Parity Error only happens when you have dodgy RAM I know that Memtest sometimes doesn't pick up on bad RAM (rare), also you may have to run a deeper test I've had countless sticks of bad ram that checked out fine but only on closer inspection I found defects.
Could also be a problem with how the game handles memory too which causes your RAM to freak out.
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spectre257 wrote...
Have you tried taking out all the RAM and adding them one by one? To isolate the issue.If I wanted to isolate the faulty module, I'd probably do that. The problem is that I don't know how to reproduce the error.
spectre257 wrote...
From the looks of it a Parity Error only happens when you have dodgy RAM I know that Memtest sometimes doesn't pick up on bad RAM (rare), also you may have to run a deeper test I've had countless sticks of bad ram that checked out fine but only on closer inspection I found defects.What exactly is "a deeper test" referring to?
spectre257 wrote...
Could also be a problem with how the game handles memory too which causes your RAM to freak out.I haven't seen any reports which would indicate that. Also, this happened after it had been running for several hours, and it hasn't happened again since. If there was a major memory management problem, it would probably show up by now.
