[ltp] T30 owners - Memory bank problems?

Stephan Groß linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:52:04 +0100


Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 02:03 schrieb D. Sen:
> Just wondering if any of the T30 owners using both memory banks on their
> system boards have noticed a problem. This is the third time in 1.5
> years that one of the memory banks on my system board has stopped
> functioning. The RAMS themselves are fine. I have two sims 512 MBytes
> each. Each time, one of the banks stopped working and the system
> recognized only 1 of the 512 MByte modules. You can only tell there is a
> problem when weird problems start happening and you lose data.....typing
> "free" shows only half the memory available.
>
> Wondering if its just me or there are others. Once every six
> months....(this is my fourth new system-board) would seem to indicate
> there others out there who have experienced the same problem?

Same with me last summer after 3 month of used. Got the mainboard replaced by 
IBM and didn't have any problems since then.

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Stephan Groß <st.gross at gmx dot de>