On Friday 07 February 2003 08:37 am, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2003 14:10 > > Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Onderwerp: RE: [linux] Re: [newbie] Faulty memory for the second time > > > > >> after one or two weeks of use, > > >> the memory check indicates errors in the memory module. > > > > > > this sounds to me a > > > lot like a static electricty problem. > > > > I agree, failure after one or two weeks is a classic symptom of static > > damage. > > > > Get yourself a wrist-strap and use it. Also how do the staff > > at the shop > > handle the RAM? I had a guy carry RAM to me in his bare hands once. I > > was not impressed. (Fortunately it survived.) > > I have never seen them in action, but the results were sometimes > impressive. > > At one occasion, a year ago, an assistant was about to hand me over my > upgraded PC, when due to some minor discussion point he opened the case to > find out if component X was present inside. Well, component X was there > indeed, but we also saw the not one of the cables that are supposed to > connect the HD's to the IDE's on the main board were actually connected to > the HD's. > > And a few months ago I got the PC back from te shop after some reparation > and found that a HD was not seen by the BIOS. I opened the case and > discovered that a cable was going from IDE1 to the particular HD... and > from there back to IDE4! I guess he wanted to be VERY sure that the HD was > connected. > > Interested in hearing other horror stories? > in the "screw me once, same on you, screw me twice, shame on me" vein, why in the name of fsck would you be going there a third time?
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