From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NgLvY-0000kq-Se for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:37:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B29A3E0776; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451D0E0776 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13488 invoked by uid 3782); 13 Feb 2010 17:36:38 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E2236A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.35.106]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:36:36 +0100 Received: (qmail 2344 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Feb 2010 17:43:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:43:47 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it! Message-ID: <20100213174347.GA1783@muc.de> References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212112221.GA1422@muc.de> <20100212124330.GB1422@muc.de> <4B754D02.3010700@gmail.com> <20100212132335.GC1422@muc.de> <4B756535.3050404@gmail.com> <20100212192524.GC1560@muc.de> <4B75E3FB.6070603@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B75E3FB.6070603@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 636579dc-c50e-4896-9ff3-a12e490a576b X-Archives-Hash: 6a227008380209e7fa8ee89d4ad58ac1 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).