[ltp] T30 owners - Memory bank problems?

[David Ochel]

Hi,

Paulo JMS Magalhaes wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:03:24 +1100
> "D. Sen" <dsen@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>>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?
 >
> 	I have the same problem with my T30 (2366-82G). I've 256+256Mb and one stopped working. In the beginning when I noticed the problem, taking the simms out and re-inserting solved the problem but not anymore.
> 	This seems to be a too common T30 problem, perhaps bad design. I'm going to send my to service soon, when I don't have so much use for it. I hope it doesn't take too long.

Yep, I had two T30 and know of many others which have this problem. 
Although the only effect was that I had only half of my memory - no 
other weird problems. :-(

cu David