From: billy_at_MIX.COM
Date: Tue Oct 29 1996 - 12:51:20 EST
> It's true, the pentium 755CD uses non-parity memory while the 486/100 uses
> parity. They use the same form factor. I have a pentium model and ordered
> a 32 Meg non-parity module. There was a problem with it so they shipped me
> a module for the 486 (with parity) Turns out that you can use a parity
> module in either model, the pentium model will just ignore the extra parity
> bits. Doesn't work the other way though....
Parity error detection can be turned off but I don't think that's
a good idea - the first memory upgrade I did was no good and I don't
think I'd have found out without it. It passed IBM's diagnostics
but I could reproducably make it fail by caching pages with Mosaic
in a certain sequence.
Billy Y..
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