On Friday 13 March 2009, Adam wrote: > Uh-oh -- I seem to have carelessly bumped against memory slot 1 (or > is that 2?), and I think it's disconnected or something. (Of course > now it's three months out of warranty.) I've tried swapping around > DIMMs, wiggling the slot, Dust-Off, contact cleaner spray, but > nothing seems to make any difference -- whatever's in the first > slot is recognized by the BIOS at boot-up, and whatever's in the > second slot might just as well not be there. Does anybody out > there have /any/ other suggestions that might help? > > Unfortunately this bottom-end motherboard has only the two slots, > maximum 1 GB per slot, so unless I can fix this somehow, I'm > restricted to 1 GB RAM for the life of this system. Fortunately > that will be adequate for Mandriva but will be a major nuisance, > because: one, this coming semester my class will require a LOT of > graphics manipulation, which of course uses tons of memory > (preferably NOT swap!), and two, that limits how much memory I can > allocate to virtual machines.
Since it's a bottom-end motherboard, maybe you can price out a non-bottom-end board to replace it with that can accept all of the other compoents. At least that's what I would consider. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - EC2 and Cloud Computer May 6 - TBD
