[ltp] Re: T30 owners - Memory bank problems?

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:10:36 +1100

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At what point do they recall their products if there is a design flaw? 
Its fine for now while its under warranty but after the three years are 
up, these machines are doomed (it seems from the majority of the 
responses) to only have one memory bank.

At the very least they should offer a cheap upgrade to a T4x, I should 
think.

DS

Ben Pfaff wrote:

>"D. Sen" <dsen@ieee.org> writes:
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>>Just wondering if any of the T30 owners using both memory banks on
>>their system boards have noticed a problem. [...]
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>Yep.  Three of us in one office at Stanford have T30s with 1 GB
>RAM as 2x512 MB.  All three of us have had a memory bank go bad.
>Two of us have had motherboards replaced, and one of those
>machines has in fact had two new motherboards.  I just haven't
>got around to getting mine repaired yet; 512 MB RAM is still
>plenty.
>
>We've had other problems, too, like the TFTs going bad.  I
>wouldn't recommend buying a T30.  They're crap for reliability.
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-- 
Dr. D. Sen
School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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At what point do they recall their products if there is a design flaw?
Its fine for now while its under warranty but after the three years are
up, these machines are doomed (it seems from the majority of the
responses) to only have one memory bank. 
 
At the very least they should offer a cheap upgrade to a T4x, I should
think. 
 
DS 
 
Ben Pfaff wrote:
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 <pre wrap="">"D. Sen" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dsen@ieee.org">&lt;dsen@ieee.org&gt;</a> writes:

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    <pre wrap="">Just wondering if any of the T30 owners using both memory banks on
their system boards have noticed a problem. [...]
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Yep.  Three of us in one office at Stanford have T30s with 1 GB
RAM as 2x512 MB.  All three of us have had a memory bank go bad.
Two of us have had motherboards replaced, and one of those
machines has in fact had two new motherboards.  I just haven't
got around to getting mine repaired yet; 512 MB RAM is still
plenty.

We've had other problems, too, like the TFTs going bad. I
wouldn't recommend buying a T30. They're crap for reliability.
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Dr. D. Sen
School of Electrical Engineering &amp; Telecommunications
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia
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