On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > 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. ;-) > > That's not what I meant at all. Consider the odds. There are millions > of little circuits on those chips, even a 0.0001% failure rate can mean > the chip is bad. They either all work or the chip doesn't work. > > >> 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 > >> > >> :-) :-) > > I bought mine from newegg and they stand behind theirs too. Things is, > the person you buy them from doesn't decide if it is a bad one or not. > It's just a luck of the draw. I doubt there are many companies that > want to sell something that is broken. It's not good for business.
no, but some shops just say 'ok, that is bad luck, here is a new set, try these'. And some others let you wait or just don't believe you, demand the output of certain test apps etc pp. Some years ago a friend had a stick that would produce errors only in certain scenarios (it was a muster dependent error). Most checkers back then did not find it. Our favorite shop just exchanged it.... And that kind of service is a good reason to buy there.
