Poor Lonely RAM

[clowninasack]

I was reminded of this story when I saw some lonely RAM modules in the back today. This is the story of those RAM modules. We had a customer with an ancient Toshiba laptop (it had a fracking floppy drive!) which was acting flakey. I found that one stick of RAM consistently tested bad in both slots. So I tell the customer he's better off getting a new laptop, and he agrees, but he wants to buy new RAM for this old beast and keep it as a spare. I try to talk him out of it since the thing is so damn old it could die any moment. He is persistent so I special order some 256MB PC100 SO-DIMM modules. Seasons change, time passes by. The RAM finally arrives. I place it in the notebook and reinstall Windows 2000. It's still flakey. Turns out that the mobo is shot and the new RAM gets errors randomly. I guess it was just a coincidence the first time that the one stick tested bad in each slot. So now he doesn't want the RAM and we get stuck with it. It's still sitting in the back, waiting for a home.

[gunsage]

Adopt-a-RAM Agency.

No RAM Left Behind.

RAM a Wish Foundation.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Toshiba RAM????

Would this work by chance in a Satellite 1000-S157 by chance?

[clowninasack]

It's Kingston part number is KTT-S0815/256. I think that model uses something similar if not the same.

[lordlundar]

DGoddess. don't look at the brand name, look here:

256MB PC100 SO-DIMM

That is the info you need. If your machine can accept it, it will work.

[Andara Bledin]

DGoddess. don't look at the brand name, look here:


That is the info you need. If your machine can accept it, it will work.

*nods*

Yup, that right there is all of the information you will ever need on whether or not it will work.

When I saw the title about "lonely RAM" I thought this was going to be a tale of someone with a single stick of memory whose computer was in dire need of a second.

^-.-^

[lordlundar]

and to break it down a bit:

256MB PC100 SO-DIMM

256MB is the size of the ram. the higher the better up to the OS cap.

PC100 is the theoretical speed of the ram. buying one that's too fast for the machine can cause problems

SO-DIMM is the packaging for the ram. Wrong packaging means it won't fit. And if you somehow make it fit, congrats, you just wrecked your computer.

[cravenmorhead]

RAM a Wish Foundation.

Wow, if I had been drinking coffee, I would have just sprayed my monitor. Thankfully, my coworkers are used to me just sort of randomly laughing.

Insanity isn't required to run a computer, but it sure does help!