[ILUG] Memory slot

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:54:47 +0000
  | From: <ollie at eillo.org>
  | Subject: [ILUG] Memory slot
  |[ ... ]
  | Dont want ot ask stupid questions and never looked at the
  | post your following up on but did you make sure its not
  | the memory itself?

 >90% sure:  A new DIMM behaved the same; i.e., 3 (long)
 beeps from the BIOS and nothing else.  I haven't tried
 an indisputably known working DIMM in the slot for fear
 of somehow damaging it (the DIMM, not the slot).

  | As far as i recall pcworld still sell PC133 which was reasonably cheap. Itd be faster than ordering online.
  | 
  | Sorry about changing the subject field but php had a seizure over it and wouldnt send.

 that's not a problem (AFAIK), albeit it sounds like yer
 MUA/MTA is not quite working .....?

 what is a mildly annoying point is not using the <Return>
 key.  this is NOT a criticism, just a request:  please keep
 yer lines < c.70 characters long!  I've reformatted part,
 but not all, of yer helpful reply just to show how annoying
 long lines can be.
 ( and there's top-posting, but I'm ignoring that bruhahah! )

  | - Ollie

 finally, thanks everybody for the suggestions!

 as it so happens, I acquired a suitable DIMM via a
 different means:  _after_ posting, I recalled there
 was a local parts shop I hadn't checked (the ones I
 had checked prior to posting didn't have any 512MiB).
 they had one at a decent price; so after c.24hours of
 `memtest'ing, it is now in use in the one remaining
 good slot.

cheers!
	-blf-
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