Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hi, Dale,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:

> >The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with
> >just one RAM stick at a time.  It turns out, one was duff, the other's
> >just fine.  (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.)  So
> >it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement
> >for the broken one.


> >Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down!


> >>Dale


> >>:-)  :-)


> There you go.  Most likely one little transistor that went belly up.  
> Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no 
> surprise at all.

Oh, don't be like that!  You're saying, like, another "little" transistor
will soon be going.  ;-)

> Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other
> options.  Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will
> make it a cheap fix as well.

I bought my PC components from a premium quality shop, the sort that
behaves like a gentleman and honours its guarantees.  Its email support
gets back to you within an hour or so (in business hours).  The
proprietor said I needed to send back _both_ RAM sticks (since they have
a joint serial number), but he's sending me a replacement pair first, so
my machine remains working.

For all that, the cost of this PC was less than half that of its
predecessor, a 1.2 GHz Athlon machine from ~2001.  With desktop PCs now
being so ridiculously cheap anyhow, it seems false economy to buy from a
lesser vendor.

> Dale

> :-)  :-)

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).