Strange flashing symbols on screen/RAM parity error
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I'm running 2.3.4 on an older HP desktop. Came back from dinner and found this on the screen:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/C9ArwiqnfToI did a hard shutdown, started it up, and was greeted by a RAM parity error:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QOPCrKmAtTN8Ka5v2I took three sticks of RAM out, leaving one 2GB stick in the computer. I added one stick at a time back to the system,
shutting down and removing the power in between, and everything was fine. All four sticks are back in the system.So what gives? Any thoughts?
Thanks
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Looks like a hardware failure, probably bad RAM given the message. Potentially some video card issue.
Juts booting with the DIMMs in proves nothing really. You need to run a few loops through memtest (I prefer 86+ http://www.memtest.org/) before you can be sure it's good.
Steve