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   From: "Doug Bissett"    
      
   On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:28:07 UTC, Lars Erdmann    
   wrote:   
      
   > It is so cheap, I think it does   
   > not even have the ECC feature.   
       
   99% of the memory that exists, in modern hardware, doesn't have the    
   ECC feature. Memory, today, is reliable enough that it is not needed,    
   and the only reason to actually use ECC memory is for "mission    
   critical" applications (life support systems etc.). The really cheap    
   memory would not have the parity bit, but memory is cheap enough now,    
   that I doubt if you could find such a thing.   
      
   On the other hand, I am somewhat surprised that a machine would serve    
   up a parity error, because the BIOS startup, even without the extended   
   memory test, is supposed to write a pattern to the memory, before it    
   boots.   
      
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