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Toshiba Recalls Notebook RAM

Posted by samzenpus on from the bad-memory dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:A Vast Sea by trip23 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's quite true. Over the years I bought dozens of different RAM-types, quite often rather cheap. About 10% of the RAM was defective in one or another way, often I noticed it only months laters, when the machine starts to behave peculiar. But having been through a lot trouble I just run memtest for two or three days after purchasing new RAM. Good thing i have a couple of spare machines. Troubleshootingwise i tend to blame RAM a lot more then some years ago.

  2. Re:A Vast Sea by zakezuke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and it's found using Pricewatch, Google, and other product search engines. Not all cheap RAM is bad, but you're a lot more likely to get something crappy if you go with the lowest bidder.

    Based on my observation, lowest bid memory is just the stuff that is in current mass production. This may or may not work with your chipset, nor are they going to take the time to document the chip density. Assuming quality control is not an issue, IMHO this is why it's generally bad to go with the lowest bidder because you might end up with something that not only doesn't work for you, but you have *NO CLUE* what it will work on.

    I have had good luck with page one pricewatch memory. I also own systems with VIA chipsets which based on my experience will typically take page 1 pricewatch memory.

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  3. The notification email looks like phishing by baxissimo · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I have a toshiba laptop and I got an email notifying me about this. The thing that annoyed me was that they aparently chose to hire a 3rd party to send out the emails to all their customers. So I got this email claiming to be from Toshiba, but the email headers weren't from a toshiba domain (rather from "toshiba.toshsvcs.com"), and even the link I was supposed to click on in the email didn't match the domain it was supposedly taking me to. The link was like: www.toshibadirect.com/CEP. It says it's going to take me to toshibadirect.com, but upon closer inspection is actually taking me to toshsvcs.com.

    I did whois on this toshsvcs.com domain and it just points to some dude in Arizona. So I'm thinking, wow, this is one of the best phishing scams I've seen... or is it?

    Well apparently it's not, but it sure could have been. It kind of ticks me off that they're doing it this way. How am I supposed to explain to my grandma how to recognize a phishing scam when companies like Toshiba are hiring people to send out legitimate emails that are virtually indistinguishable from scams? In fact, this would still be a great one for the phishers to jump on. Just copy that toshiba recall email, and replace the already suspicious links with new ones that don't redirect to toshiba's website, or which do after asking you to enter your computer's password.

    What's the world coming to? Oh, well at least we're getting rid of that oaf in the White House. Oh crap, you mean we're not???