Re: Laptop repair

Does it support single 1g sticks?

either way it is looking like some money to be spent.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> 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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