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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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.