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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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> Hi, Dale,
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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down!
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>>>> Dale
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>>>> :-)  :-)
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>> 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.
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> Oh, don't be like that!  You're saying, like, another "little" transistor
> will soon be going.  ;-)
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That's not what I meant at all.  Consider the odds.  There are millions 
of little circuits on those chips, even a 0.0001% failure rate can mean 
the chip is bad.  They either all work or the chip doesn't work.


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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> Dale
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>> :-)  :-)
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I bought mine from newegg and they stand behind theirs too.  Things is, 
the person you buy them from doesn't decide if it is a bad one or not.  
It's just a luck of the draw.  I doubt there are many companies that 
want to sell something that is broken.  It's not good for business.

If you bought the memory sticks as a set, they do usually want them 
returned as a set.  That's normal.  I have seen that many times.

Glad you got something working tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)