JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

WC> Now I'm looking for a DOS memory utility that might tell me if my 
WC> EDO RAM is parity or non-parity and 60 or 70 NS prior to buying 64 
WC> Meg. of EDO on Ebay.

I must've missed this the first time around...

JH> Hmm. I can't recall that I've ever seen any EDO sticks with parity
JH> chips.  In any event,  just count the memory chips on the SIMM, and
JH> if 8 or 16 it is non parity, and if 9 or 18 it is parity.

Then there's the issue of whether or not the MB even _supports_ parity ram.
 I've found that much of what I have here doesn't care about it one way or
the other,  and if it's there won't use it.  A clue might be a setting in
CMOS to enable/disable parity checking.

I can think of only one system here that has that option.  And one that
absolutely _requires_ parity ram (that "digital" tower),  the
rest won't even use it...   :-(

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