cs504aa@unm-la.UUCP (David Barts) (05/01/87)
just this morning, my ibm xt has started giving messages like: parity error 1 18000 and halting dead in its tracks. this has happened twice, both times after exiting from two (different) programs. sorry to bug the net with this, but i don't have (can't afford) my own copy of the tech. reference manual. just what does this mean (sounds like a pretty general message to me, so i am not expecting a super-specific answer). is it a hardware or a software problem (sure sounds like hardware to me, but i was debugging an assembler program when the first message showed up, so could i have done something nasty to a critical memory location to cause this?). system is an ibm xt with 512k, one floppy drive, and one 20 meg hard disk (all standard ibm). system has surge protectors between it and the ac line. we have been getting thunderstorms here, and system was in operation during one yesterday. (shudder) please reply directly to me as i do not normally read this newsgroup. thanks in advance, -- David Barts N5JRN "The Boy in the Box" Arpa: cs504aa@unm-la.lanl.gov | unm-la!cs504aa@lanl.arpa UUCP: ...ihnp4!lanl!unm-la!cs504aa 2m: 146.22in/146.82out | 220: 222.34in/223.94out