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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 |
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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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That's not what I meant at all. Consider the odds. There are millions |
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of little circuits on those chips, even a 0.0001% failure rate can mean |
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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 |
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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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I bought mine from newegg and they stand behind theirs too. Things is, |
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the person you buy them from doesn't decide if it is a bad one or not. |
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It's just a luck of the draw. I doubt there are many companies that |
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want to sell something that is broken. It's not good for business. |
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If you bought the memory sticks as a set, they do usually want them |
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returned as a set. That's normal. I have seen that many times. |
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Glad you got something working tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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