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Strange Hardware Malfunction Blue Screen Error Message!?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:49 pm
by Delmarco
T60 was working fine around doing light internet duty (ebay, forums, netflix) and it happened at 11:30am today. I pulled the battery and AC cord and it rebooted fine and worked perfectly all day until 10:30pm and it happened again. Another reboot fixed it but I sense it will happen again. Is this a message for memory RAM or Harddrive? Any help will be awesome thanks.
*** Hardware Malfunction
Call Your Hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***
Re: Strange Hardware Malfunction Blue Screen Error Message!?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:22 am
by AvalonXIII
Memory Parity Error implies that RAM has failed. Buy new RAM to replace your defective one(s).
Re: Strange Hardware Malfunction Blue Screen Error Message!?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:23 am
by Delmarco
AvalonXIII wrote:Memory Parity Error implies that RAM has failed. Buy new RAM to replace your defective one(s).
thanks
Re: Strange Hardware Malfunction Blue Screen Error Message!?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:50 am
by RealBlackStuff
Or request replacement RAM if your T60 is still under warranty.
Re: Strange Hardware Malfunction Blue Screen Error Message!?
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:33 pm
by sktn77a
If you have two RAM modules, try taking out one at a time to see if you can identify a bad one. Or, if you have access to additional memory, try swapping yours out with that.
Re: Strange Hardware Malfunction Blue Screen Error Message!?
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:09 pm
by r. aster
Or read
this very long thread. I think the net is that these errors are usually
not real hardware errors, but rather driver errors.
RA