A Dell Inspiron E1705 was reported to get error message ¡°NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error ¨C System Crash¡± on the E1705 screen. This was justified by an owner of Dell Inspiron 6400 who got the same error message. Further, he described the symptoms of the error as: The appearance of random incidents of the BSOD (System halted)
- The screen was blank. The laptop was found working, but the screen didn¡¯t come at all.
Other than by the both laptop, the error was also experienced by a Dell Vostro 1500 and Dell Inspiron 6400. Theories then came up trying to define the problem. Among several causes, two were suspected to be the most possible ones. They were the video card and the HDD. Should the problem really lie on the video card, the solution could include:
- Simply disabling the video card.
- Replacing the existing video card with a new one.
- Updating to the latest driver.
As for the HDD, the problem might be caused by bad sectors. If this was true, the only way to solve the problem was changing the HDD. It would need a thorough check and examination on the system before an action was finally taken.

The Inspiron 6400 offers Intel’s Core Duo and Solo processors, integrated wireless technology, 5-in-one memory card reader and Next Generation Media Direct, it is the ideal balance of performance and productivity.

For display Includes the 15.4″ WXGA (1280X800) with TrueLife or the 15.4″ UltraSharp WSXGA+ (1680×1050) display with TrueLifeTM .Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 950 Graphics and Bluetooth® wireless solution boasts up to 3 mbps data transfer rate for customers who want to synchronize with a Bluetooth enabled phone or handheld device or connect their laptop to Bluetooth enabled wireless devices like keyboard, mouse or printer.

Other Features
*Inspiron 6400 Notebook: Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2080 (1.73GHz/533MHz/1MB Cache) Windows XP Professional
*3GB DDR2 SDRAM, 80GB Serial ATA hard drive for large video files
*Wireless Internet access 802.11b/g (where available)
*8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability for DVD RW For DVD and CD Burning
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