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*** Hardware Malfunction

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I have been having trouble with Windows Installer. It kept closing (or disappearing) when installing a program, so I could never install several programs.

I decided to format and re-install, but I first wanted to try a system repair (with the XP cd). It finished setup and rebooted, but every time it gets this message:

(solid blue background with white text)

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*** Hardware Malfunction

Call your hardware vendor for support

NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error

*** The system has halted ***
Of course I'm going to contact Dell in the morning, but does this look like a case of bad RAM?

thanks
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