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

[Aidan Marks]

This was a common problem across our company when we had T30s.
Apparently it occurred more often to left handers picking up their
laptop, flexing the bottom left hand side.

On 30/07/06 06:13 AEST, Thomas Hood wrote:

> A long time ago Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> D. Sen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I just experienced this.  My T30 had 512 MiB as 2 x 256 MiB and all
> of a sudden it now sees only 256 MiB.  The memory boards are both good;
> either one works in the slot closer to the front; the slot closer to
> the back does not appear to work any more.
>