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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 02:19:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
To:        Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.net>
Cc:        William Maddox <maddox@p-1.Eng.Sun.COM>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Parity trouble with Asus mainboard
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.960916021818.22066A-100000@bedroom.saturn-tech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970916100515.01432790@mail.nacamar.de>

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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote:

> >It is quite possible that the Gigabyte automatically disables ECC if you
> >don't actually have parity memory installed as an "idiot-proof" type
> >feature.  I honestly don't know for sure, though.
> 
> My Gigabyte 586 HX has three settings for parity: enabled, disabled and
> auto. I set it to enabled when I tried the parity SIMMs. Later I installed
> the normal SIMMs again and immediately got a parity error, so the parity
> check seems to work.

Hmmm...   That shoots THAT theory, then...  :)

Later......						<Doug>






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