At 07:28 PM -0600 01/13/2003, Jeff Walther wrote: >Sure, bad RAM. Happens all the time. It used to be quite rare, but >with the tight margins quality control seems to have suffered. I >got seven out of eight bad 128 MB modules from Velocity Upgrades in >one order. Three out of ten bad in another order.
I agree, quality control has suffered. However, from what I've read in the trades, that's mostly at the chip manufacturing level. The companies building the actual DIMMs are doing much better at testing them. 7 out of 8 bad? 3 out of 10? That's totally unaccepable. I'd switch suppliers PDQ! FWIW, over the past two years, I've made a couple of bulk purchases from various places; resale to local customers, excess via eBay and USENET. Before shipping 'em out, I tested them in one system or another. Only four or five were bad - total - in two years! But I've had to swap out dozens of returns from home-users... I don't care what joe schmoe pc "experts" say - ALL high-speed parts *are* static sensative. They also tend to object to having finger oils, chocolate, pencil eraser, coffee, kool-aid, and other unidentifable substances schmered on the edge contacts... Please Please Please, everyone, remember to ground yourself and your computer properly before and while touching any static-sensative parts! Be especially careful if the air in your home/office is particularly dry. - Dan. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
