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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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> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: |
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> >The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with |
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> >just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's |
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> >just fine. (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.) So |
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> >it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement |
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> >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. |
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> Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no |
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> surprise at all. |
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Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" transistor |
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will soon be going. ;-) |
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> Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other |
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> options. Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will |
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> make it a cheap fix as well. |
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I bought my PC components from a premium quality shop, the sort that |
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behaves like a gentleman and honours its guarantees. Its email support |
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gets back to you within an hour or so (in business hours). The |
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proprietor said I needed to send back _both_ RAM sticks (since they have |
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a joint serial number), but he's sending me a replacement pair first, so |
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my machine remains working. |
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For all that, the cost of this PC was less than half that of its |
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predecessor, a 1.2 GHz Athlon machine from ~2001. With desktop PCs now |
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being so ridiculously cheap anyhow, it seems false economy to buy from a |
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lesser vendor. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |