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 1NgQlY-0000SR-3o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:47:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6268EE0733; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19720E0733 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so3814879fxm.2 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:47:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=+spEZdD4fAVHMRyyUQuKLFhl+iHRRZKOPBMqbND8Y0w=; b=e45H5R1YPW0BT46FV4kYEmZYYuAWhf6mtM5u2zH8ZLW0za19EjXwip8s0og7rD2OUD LzpC4/JsZn0y/6eQY4wnboqhU+b3OxN2QseNMKZm0MBC8R/FhDcMutdqe3ZGNqSbug5I GI6a5tgvWO12DawoulQ6DjsDMM9pzw/XBZwpo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=a0RdRadHQQ8eUMBZ0A9ldp2kmTrsdaqaGw25r5xrvaahBXLNAJ7JPNsH7/bWClM8CR Dx2FAlD5oA51ruom+JieE7no/q0bQYR1sh9KCuGQww08S5KdheHuK34iVW6NEvqySMdt wql5f6Li+jNGa2nF9mmvwHl5TPH1uHwHM+MdI= Received: by 10.223.3.137 with SMTP id 9mr3662534fan.49.1266101220232; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:47:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm2345850fxm.9.2010.02.13.14.46.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:46:59 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it! Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:46:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <4B75E3FB.6070603@gmail.com> <20100213174347.GA1783@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20100213174347.GA1783@muc.de> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002132346.56831.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4b864735-4017-497b-be00-e3473f02cefa X-Archives-Hash: fdb866bc71bdf461744fdd670219a12d On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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 > > > > :-) :-) nothing beats a local shop where the personal knows you and they just replace your stuff when you tell them that it is defective... I gladly pay a little premium for that.