[aclug-L] Re: Ram how to tell if bad or..

[Clint Brubakken <cabrubak@xxxxxxx>]

In case they have a deal like this again who was this merchant?


On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 10:42, David Carmichael wrote:


> 
> Arnold -
> 
> I was just trying to add a DIMM to his open second slot, could not tell via
> the BIOS what the first installed DIMM's type/speed was or anything.
> 
> Since the value of a 64meg PC-133 DIMM is basically 'NILL' any more and I
> happened to have this one laying around I was just trying to help him out.
> But it just did not work out.
> 
> By the end of today I would of had two more 64meg DIMM's that I could of
> tried... but he drove in from outside of Wichita to purchase the scanner
> that I had for sale and I wanted to make sure that it would work with his
> computer before I sold it to him.. so I had him bring along his CPU/CASE,
> saw how little memory he had and was going to give him the memory.
> 
> It could of been his first DIMM that was really giving the troubles because
> he has always said that the computer was always giving him 'BLUE SCREENS'
> and by adding the second DIMM caused the error to happen during boot.???
> 
> Speaking of DIMM pricing.. picked up 2-512meg dimms the other day online for
> $40 each!!! It was a one day sale and the dealer does not have a high
> rating.. but I have done business with them in the past, so took the risk,
> and "LOW AND BEHOLD" the memory is working like a charm in my HP Athlon
> 1700+ system... now maxed out this system memory at one Gig.
> 
> --David
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arnold Cavazos Jr." <abcjr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:25 AM
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Ram how to tell if bad or..
> >
> > Nah, a $100 for 64MB is ridiculous unless it is some FP 30-pin simm.
> > I see that the MoBo has 2 DIMM slots.  Were you trying to add memory or
> > replace memory?  Mismatching memory speeds, CAS latencies, etc. is never
> > a good idea.  Since you already know about Crucial why don't you send
> > your friend to Crucial to purchase memory?  A $100 will buy 512MB of
> > memory for your friends computer (tax excluded).
> >
> > We have well over 6GB of Crucial memory in production over here
> > (everything from mail servers to Cisco 7200VXR's).
> >
> > --
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