It might have been just as easy for the tech to wave the RAM back and forth in
the air a few times - lightly touch it to his forehead - chant
"Ibeebeebeeeboo" five times - blinking the lights off and on with the other
hand while twirling about ...
He'd have come to the same conclusion ...
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote:
####I took the suspect ram sticks back to the shop where I bought them and the
##tech put it in a windows box and booted it up. It booted right up, so they
##said the memory was tested ok. They gave me an exchange anyway, but I
##thought it interesting that their test was to boot it and let the bios test
##tell them if it was ok. That's fine i'm back to 256M and it was instantly
##recognized in LM7.2 on boot. Dennis M.
##-----Original Message-----
##From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
##[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWO
##Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:45 AM
##To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
##Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##
##This is the funny thing about my situation, no crashes, no weird things
##going on, I just can't get linux to recognize my ram. The system doesn't
##even seem to run any slower, transfers of web pages and searches are as
fast ##as ever. I am thinking motherboard, so I will try suggested test of
putting ##the ram in another box and see if it causes problems there. Two of
the ##sticks are only a couple of months old and I should be able to
exhchange ##them if I can determine good or bad.
##-----Original Message-----
##From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
##[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
##Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
##To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
##Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##
##Naa, I can't believe this, I have a 256 stick that crashed three computers
##continuously and it counted up in the bios just fine in all three. This
128 ##stick isn't quite so ruthless on me but linux apps keep crashing on me
left ##and right and weird things like the logout won't work sometimes in
X... ##
##-----Original Message-----
##From: Myers, Dennis R NWO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
##Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:20 PM
##To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
##Subject: RE: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##
##
##I've been told by local computer techs that if your bios sees the ram at
##bootup ,( in other words detects it and counts it off on the first screen
##that shows your primary and secondary IDE devices and you can hit del to
##get to bios) then the ram memory is good and should be functional. I am not
##a technician so I am relying on their advice.
##
##BM__MailData-----Original Message-----
##From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
##mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
##<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
##Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:31 PM
##To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
##Subject: [newbie] Testing for bad RAM
##
##I am suspicious that my RAM is bad. Is there anyway in linux that I can
##confirm this?
##
##
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