[ltp] Dead R51

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Andrew Barr wrote:
> situation that don't make sense. There's an extra DIMM I was using in my
> R51 (512 MB for a total of 768 MB) that, when inserted into the
> R50e /it/ begins to behave much in the same way (described in the
> original post). Which is annoying, because the 256 MB that the R50e has
> is woefully inadequate for me (OpenOffice.org takes an /eternity/ to
> start). Nonetheless, simply removing the DIMM from the R51 didn't revive
> it, as it does the R50e. There's probably more than one problem here,
> and I don't know how it all fits together.

That DIMM is probably short-circuited, and using it for too long on any
machine might kill either its MCH (memory controller hub), or the power
regulator, depending where the short is.  I sure hope you did no lasting
damage to your R50e...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh