Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> >The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with > >just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's > >just fine. (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.) So > >it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement > >for the broken one. > >Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down! > >>Dale > >>:-) :-) > There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. > Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no > surprise at all. Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another "little" transistor will soon be going. ;-) > Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other > options. Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will > make it a cheap fix as well. I bought my PC components from a premium quality shop, the sort that behaves like a gentleman and honours its guarantees. Its email support gets back to you within an hour or so (in business hours). The proprietor said I needed to send back _both_ RAM sticks (since they have a joint serial number), but he's sending me a replacement pair first, so my machine remains working. For all that, the cost of this PC was less than half that of its predecessor, a 1.2 GHz Athlon machine from ~2001. With desktop PCs now being so ridiculously cheap anyhow, it seems false economy to buy from a lesser vendor. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
