Laptop repair

[Stephen]

Have you tried to run with just ram in the 2nd slot.

not best practice but sometimes you can get it to post and do diags like this.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> That seems to indicate to me that the 2nd mem slot / mb is bad.
> To answer your question, I don't know of a repair shop.
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> I ran memtest on each back individually for an hour or so, and no
>> failures. memtest won't run when both banks are installed. It crashes
>> somewhere from during boot to running the test.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net
>> <mailto:ejs at shubes.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Good advice (as usual from Larry). You might also let memtest run on it
>>     for a while to try and pinpoint the failure.
>>
>>     Dazed_75 wrote:
>>      > It could just be the heat buildup.  Try to verify that the fan is
>>      > working and check for dust buildup.  Canned air works pretty good for
>>      > blowing those things out.  You might want to try that first before
>>      > spending money to have someone else fix it.
>>      >
>>      > You could also monitor temperatures with one of the sensor
>>     programs and
>>      > see how much higher it gets with both sticks in place than with
>>     only one.
>>      >
>>      > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Mark Phillips
>>      > <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>>     <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
>>     <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>>> wrote:
>>      >
>>      >     I have an old Dell Latitude c640 that needs some repair work.
>>     I am
>>      >     looking for recommendations for local repair shops.
>>      >
>>      >     The laptop was running just fine with two 512 MB memory
>>     sticks. Then
>>      >     it started freezing up after it warmed up. If I only use one
>>     memory
>>      >     stick, it works just fine, although a little slow. I ran the Dell
>>      >     memory diagnostic on each stick individually, and both passed.
>>      >     Before I junk it, I thought I would see how much it would cost to
>>      >     fix it.
>>      >
>>      >     Thanks,
>>      >
>>      >     Mark
>>      >
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