NMI: Parity Check/ Memory Parity Error -- System crash

[khanhfat]

WE should sticky this thread... Lucky for the ones who doesn't get this error.

Thanks for the helpful information Eessie. Why don't we put the Dell's Engineer team work on this issue like they did with Precision Model. May be I'll claim back my E1705.

Like some other users suggested from The DELL Inc forum , they went to other Dell's country website and checked other older driver available there. I'll come over UK site and search for some drivers. IF they have A0x version that is older than now.

Core Duo , Core 2 Duo is all affected by this particular BSOD. I remember I was using A02 Bios but it's still crash. I haven't got a chance to use Bios A01 or 00 yet.

Even the Video driver, Dell removed the old one away.

Has anyone tell Dell about this particular issue? and link them this link.

[eessie]

Yes this thread should definitely be made a sticky since it is an issue that is obviously affecting a lot of people (look at the size of this thread already) not including those users who have not even reported this problem probably thinking it is something wrong on their end. In any case since the NVidia drivers have been working error free for me for a month now I will just keep watch over this and report back to Dell technical support on the improvement of my situation, you can try on your end and see if the other Dell countries website still have older versions of the 7900 drivers and see if those work

The only thing that bothers me about all of this is WHY is it that this error shows up on only some E1705/9400 laptops and not the others?


For example, my sister also owns an Inspiron 9400 with the 7900 GeForce card using the Dell stock drivers and so far she has never gotten this NMI parity error (she bought hers sometime back in May or June of 2006)
the only major differences between our 2 laptops however is that she is still using the original BIOS that came with the laptop when she ordered it (BIOS version A01) and she has never updated it since then whereas I have always updated the BIOS when a new version came out including the most recent one (BIOS version A06) not sure if it has anything to do with what's going on but we may be closer to the solution if say this problem has never occurred on an Inspiron 9400/E1705 using the A01 BIOS indicating that there may be some sort of conflict between the newer BIOS versions and the Dell Stock drivers...

So the question is this: has ANYBODY gotten this NMI parity error while using the A01 BIOS AND the Geforce 7900 card?

It’s too bad I cannot convince my sister to upgrade her BIOS to version A06, because lets say she did and then all of a sudden a few days later she starts getting the NMI parity error then we would have put our finger on the source of the problem.

[hydra]

You may be on to something. I have the same as your sister, no BSOD with A01 and stock drivers.

[khanhfat]

So the Final conclusion is the BIOS? Unluckily , Dell removed it from their site. Does any body have a backup of A01 bios? This makes me feel like get my E1705 again.

From all the suspection from MOtherboard, HDD, Video card, Ram.. til now. The problem that bugs Dell inspiron is that freaking BIOS.

But most of the new Dell is flashed with A03 or A02? SO this error would affect pretty much lots of inspiron out there. I think I'll write Dell a letter saying that I want to get my E1705 back along with a Video card upgrade + BIOS flash to older version.

[hydra]

http://support.us.dell.com/support/d...&fileid=160228

I would wait a bit to see what shakes out. Bios updates can be fatal if things go wrong.

[amb9800]

Today i sent ATI a complaint ticket linked this thread.

Ok let's see what they say, though I kind of doubt the video card or video driver is the problem because people with both the ATI X1400 and Nvidia 7900 cards installed are having the issue.

[khanhfat]

http://support.us.dell.com/support/d...&fileid=160228

I would wait a bit to see what shakes out. Bios updates can be fatal if things go wrong.

Thanks for the link. I don't have my Dell here to test it though. Any one from other version BIOS switch to this yet?

ATi driver defenitely has some serious errors.

[nxman]

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[khanhfat]

Thanks for the update...

[mic84]

got 2 of these errors in 1 month...
is DELL gonna do anything about it?