dysfunction of the system hardware has ceased

I got the above message twice in recent weeks and don't know what to do. The full message is, failure of hardware, NMI: parity check/memory parity error * the system stopped *.

I have Windows Vista on my laptop.

Thanks in advance

Sandra

Download and run to create a boot CD of Memtest86 + http://www.memtest.org/ . This will check your RAM by starting on the CD and running many trials.

If you have more than one piece of RAM installed, delete all except one and see if it boots then. If this is not the case, replace that one with another and try again.

This KB for the other reference troubleshooting steps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315223

SC Tom

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