On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Dale, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > >The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with > > >just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's > > >just fine. (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.) So > > >it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement > > >for the broken one. > > > > > > > > >Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down! > > > > > >>Dale > > >> > > >>:-) :-) > > > > There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. > > Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no > > surprise at all. > > Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" transistor > will soon be going. ;-) > > > Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other > > options. Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will > > make it a cheap fix as well. > > I bought my PC components from a premium quality shop, the sort that > behaves like a gentleman and honours its guarantees. Its email support > gets back to you within an hour or so (in business hours). The > proprietor said I needed to send back _both_ RAM sticks (since they have > a joint serial number), but he's sending me a replacement pair first, so > my machine remains working. > > For all that, the cost of this PC was less than half that of its > predecessor, a 1.2 GHz Athlon machine from ~2001. With desktop PCs now > being so ridiculously cheap anyhow, it seems false economy to buy from a > lesser vendor. > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-)
nothing beats a local shop where the personal knows you and they just replace your stuff when you tell them that it is defective... I gladly pay a little premium for that.
