BL>  I bought 16Mb for $179 (installed) on Monday, and mine was parity
BL> RAM too, done the same way as yours with 4 chips on the back of the
BL> board. I was a bit nervous mixing it with my 8Mb of non-parity, but
BL> the nice Chinese lady gave me a lecture in a language I assumed was
BL> English and it seems to work anyway.

It worked because your M/b doesn't use the parity bits even if they
are there. You got screwed again with something you don't need :)

It sure was "cheap" though. Perhaps the "parity" chips
are fake 
@EOT:

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