At 11:56 AM -0700 7/28/02, victoria brandon wrote:
>I just got my first laptop, a 5300c with 32 mg and running OS 8.5.1 --
>except for needing a new battery it seemed perfect in every way. But then
>yesterday it crashed (I thought) definitively: the screen went black, and no
>key or key combination brought about any response whatsoever. It wasn't
>asleep (no blinking green light), nor was it truly off, since a gentle hum
>emanated from somewhere in its innards. I forced it to shut down by
>imitating a power failure (disconnecting the cord and ejecting the battery)
>(maybe not a very clever thing to have done) -- and then it restarted
>normally, though with the warning that having crashed the last time it was
>checking itself over. The message then appeared that the memory manager (I
>think this was the phrase) had found something wrong and I should take it to
>a service tech. No repeat of this information on subsequent restarts, and
>the computer seems to work as well as ever, but it now thinks it has only 24
>mg installed (though still 64 virtual, which doesn't add up) instead of 32.
>What happened? Where did the extra 8mg go? What can I do about it?
>Many thanks,
>Victoria
The same thing happened to me on a 3500, and my problem (and yours)
was a RAM module that's come loose. It's probably just under the keyboard,
and you would be wise to download a service manual to make sure of its'
location.
Paul
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