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Toshiba Recalls Notebook RAM
TheSync writes "The Register is reporting that Toshiba is recalling notebook RAM blaiming third-party DIMMs. This follows on HP's bad notebook RAM in June. Which raises the question, is there a vast sea of bad DIMMs out there?"
is there a vast sea of bad DIMMs out there?
Maybe so, the HP Compaq laptop I'm typing on had 1G of RAM replaced several months back.
As for slashdot editting, though, the memory isn't the only thing DIMM.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
It's the distant, and not-so-shiny cousin of 'bling.' Blaim was discovered by a scientist that accidentally blew up his lab by mixing certain combustible chemicals. As the smoke cleared, the lab supervisor came running to find out what happened. Luckily, nobody was hurt. When he asked the scientist how the explosion happened, he was told that one of the janitors must have knocked over a beaker...or something...
And blaim, or 'blame' as we call it in English, was born.
Been seeing a lot of this recently. Why not just have a redirect to The Reg.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I think that's the kind of laptop I've got but I can't seem to remember.
"...on Dell's bad notebook RAM..."
i've had problems with it too. It dumps all over the carpet, scratches up my costly italian-made OS, it bitches at users it doesn't know, it whines when it needs to be flushed, etc.
*rolls up newspaper* bad memory indeed.
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HP, which discovered the defect during routine notebook testing, said the flaw could result in blue screens, which indicate a computer crash; intermittent lock-ups or memory corruption.
Gosh, I've seen a lot of that out there. They won't give you your money back, but free replacements which are easy to install have been getting rave reviews. After hundreds of similar replacements, I can say for sure that the RAM was not the problem. Every now and then there really is a hardware problem, like a dead back up battery ($3.00 at Walmart), but mostly it's bad software. So spin a CD before you pop the cover.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Toshiba recalls RAM.
Sources say the reason behind this move is that the faulty memory can accessed randomly.
Toshiba unavailable for comment.
Excellent. One day, when I'm good and drunk, I'll tell that story and it will be hilarious. At least, to me..because I'll be drunk...