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Sun, 29 Mar 2009

1GB should be enough for anybody

My HP dx2250 desktop suddenly refused to turn on last Tuesday; it just beeped loudly at me when the power button was pressed. It took me until today to look at it; downloading the troubleshooting guide, I could translate the pattern of flashes of the LEDs as signalling faulty RAM. Phew.

I must say I was surprised - I have never had RAM die on me before. At least it wasn't a DIMM module I had bought myself... and it could be worse, I was almost considering replacing the machine. (I wonder how many people do.) For now, I'm down to 1GB RAM, unless I can find something stashed away somewhere.

Posted: 29 Mar 2009 00:00 | Tags: , | Comments (1)

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Posted by Shawn McMahon at Fri May 15 20:56:22 2009
See, to me, it's weird you haven't had RAM go out on you.  We probably have one Linux box every week (out of hundreds, obviously) that reports a RAM problem.  Half the time, reseating fixes it; the other half requires replacement.

Admittedly, these numbers would be lower if we didn't have environmental problems in there (the place was supposed to be abandoned years ago, the company keeps dragging their feet) but you're not sitting in a data center; an office is still worse even than an overloaded data center.

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