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Apr. 20th, 2007 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariI am so so so so so stupid.
So damned stupid.
I tested the motherboard with memory and without when I was trying to figure out what was failing on the system.
I never bothered to test the memory chips individually.
I have three sticks of memory, two PC2100 256MB chips and 1 PC2700 512MB chip. I took out the PC2700 stick to see what I could slavage for my parents computer and...well...the system came right up, no blue screens, no reboots. I'm tyoing this enty on it right now.
Sure enough, plug the PC2700 on it in on it's own without the PC2100 chips, and you get one long beep. Bad memory.
I should have checked the chips individually first - I never did, just checked it for beep codes with and without the full memory. I'm a doof. THIS is why I've been Level 1 tech support for ten years.
But now I'm down to 512MB...not comic killing, but comic delaying.
So damned stupid.
I tested the motherboard with memory and without when I was trying to figure out what was failing on the system.
I never bothered to test the memory chips individually.
I have three sticks of memory, two PC2100 256MB chips and 1 PC2700 512MB chip. I took out the PC2700 stick to see what I could slavage for my parents computer and...well...the system came right up, no blue screens, no reboots. I'm tyoing this enty on it right now.
Sure enough, plug the PC2700 on it in on it's own without the PC2100 chips, and you get one long beep. Bad memory.
I should have checked the chips individually first - I never did, just checked it for beep codes with and without the full memory. I'm a doof. THIS is why I've been Level 1 tech support for ten years.
But now I'm down to 512MB...not comic killing, but comic delaying.
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Date: 2007-04-21 08:23 am (UTC)