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

 BV> It worked because your M/b doesn't use the parity bits even if
 BV> they are there.

  The M/b can do parity if I turn it on, but that's not what I meant.
I was worried that the two sets of totally different RAM might conflict.
So far, so good. 

 BV> You got screwed again with something you don't need :)

  It was the *cheapest* RAM going, so I got 12.5% more than I paid
for. I figure I may have paid 20% more than I should have done if my
estimate of $150 for 16Mb RAM is right. I *really* got screwed when I
paid $450 a year ago for the 8Mb already in there...3-times the real
price.

 BV> It sure was "cheap" though. Perhaps the
"parity" chips are fake
 BV> 

  ROFL!!

  In a general sense, I never did see any point in parity. If a system
is so unreliable it needs 12.5% redundancy then 12.5% is not enough!
The minimum workable redundancy is 100% - or you may as well not
bother.

BTW, I stripped out the drivers like you said but nothing much
happened. I had 615K before and 616K after. What does IFSHLP.SYS do?
It's located in the /windows directory as part of Win311 but I don't
know what installed it.  

Regards,
Bob
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