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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Paul Khoury wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:11:32 -0700 (MST), billy@MIX.COM wrote: > > >Yes the 755 uses parity memory. You can turn off the parity error > >detection in the set-up (hold F1 down and boot) but I'd suggest not > >doing this - I have had one card that had errors and I'd never have > >know without it... > > That's one of the nice things about parity. It's such a shame > that the newer ThinkPads don't use parity, at least the > non-EDO models. Actually, the really nice way to handle parity was the way some EISA systems (remember those?) did it. If the motherboard detected a parity error, it would map around the bad memory. You'd lose something like 8k, but the memory module would still be usable. -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com