I bought a new laptop for myself - developing java code with only 512 MB was too slooooooooow. I had planned on upgrading my daughter's laptop from the current PIII 800 to this one (PIV 1.4), but I need to get it to work with the 1 GB of RAM. So, I am back to looking for a reputable repair shop that does not charge an arm and a leg.......
 
I remember testing both memory slots as well as both sticks. Either the machine will not boot with memory only in the second slot or both sticks passed memtest in both high and low slots.
 
Mark

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Technomage <technomage.hawke@gmail.com> wrote:
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@shubes.net> wrote:
>
>
its unusual, but it could be that either the dma controller for that
slot or the slot itself has gone bad.
if it still works perfectly on the one slot, use it as a webserver in
house or some other purpose
that doesn't require a lot of speed. you could always donate it to a
charity or perhaps one of our fellow
pluggers whose stuck with a desktop.

dpends on what you want the machine used for. :)

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