[ltp] T30 owners - Memory bank problems?

[Aaron Mulder]

	We've got a T30 that's had the problem twice.  Fortunately, it's a
work machine with on-site service, so they show up and swap the
motherboard the next day.  The service guy said it's a regular problem
with that model.

Aaron

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, shadow.blue wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:52:54 +0900 (KST)
> "Manho Kim" <nunkot1@naver.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have exactly same problem.
> > I used T30(236681U) for about 1 and half year.
> > Primary memory slot: 256MB default RAM
> > 2nd memory slot    : 256MB RAM
> > About one week ago, I recognized my system is very slow..
> > I thought that my system was infected virus or something.
> > Today, I found that I have only 256MB memory..
> > I throughly tested RAM by switching slots. 
> > All of two RAM works fine in Primary memory slot.
> > However, All of two RAM doesn't work on 2nd memory slot.
> > I use my T30 for more than 15 hours per day because I have only one laptop.
> > I might wait to send T30 to IBM service until summer vacation
> > 
> > 
> > D. Sen 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?
> > > 
> > > DS
> > > 
> 
> 
> I have had exactly the same problem, slot 1 stopped working 2 weeks ago,
> all of a sudden...
> 
> I tried everything, but it didn`t seem to work.
> I contacted IBM, send the laptop in, and 6 days later i got the laptop back
> with a new board on it, now everything works as it did before the problem.
> 
> My advice, if you get this kind of problem, send it in. The board is damaged.
> 
> -greets,
> shad
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