Rather then the sticks themselves, I would hazard a guess that it's the motherboard. Seems very odd that both sticks would fail and one only partially. Much more likely that it is the memory controller on the motherboard that has failed.
Only way you'd be able to figure that out is to put in a stick that is known to be good larger then 384MB. Jim. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malcolm Greene Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NF] Memory failure question My kids' e-Machine PC suddenly stopped working. When I rebooted it, it started beeping with an error pattern that indicated there was a memory problem. I had two 1G memory cards in the unit. I tried various combinations of the memory cards in the machine's 2 memory slots and found 1 combination that worked with 1 specific card in 1 specific slot - with the caveat that instead of 1G of RAM, the computer only reports 348M. Is it conceivable that a memory card could partially fail along a multiple of 2? I would have thought that memory failures were binary - either a memory card works or it doesn't. Could this problem also be a problem with the machine's motherboard? I'm asking because there seem to be a lot of complaints about e-Machine motherboard quality. Comments from anyone with hardware experience appreciated. Thanks, Malcolm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
