Memory that uses a ninth bit for parity checking. The checking operation is performed by circuits on the motherboard, not on the memory chips themselves. When a ...

I tried installing some standard PC-133 from Micron on a Compaq Presario, and the RAM wasn't recognized at all.<P>I believe that these models require NON-PARITY ram.<P>What is non-parity, and can any ...

I have a Mac Pro, and as most everyone here knows, it uses ECC type memory. While browsing the System Log today, I noticed that one dimm is periodically causing errors (apparently corrected). This is ...

An error detection technique that tests the integrity of digital data in the computer. Parity checking adds an extra parity cell to each 8-bit byte of memory, thus ...