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| Thread ID: 64501 | 2005-12-17 02:06:00 | Dead Dell Slots? | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
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| 413372 | 2005-12-17 10:46:00 | The book only made mention of material from the erasor sticking to the surface being cleaned, But then the same book also said that using a vacuem cleaner to clean a comp was also a big no-no, And that theroy has been dumped on from a great hight and dismissed as urban legend by people around here who know these things... ....Hence, I have no opinion........ :rolleyes: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 413373 | 2005-12-17 16:46:00 | If the connectors were really gold there would be no crud . The only thing I ever use to clean components is isopropyl . Apart from defluffing fans that is . Anyway I'd toss it and buy a real PC . BTW what is this "service class?" The service class is at the local junior college on every first and third Thursday evening from 6:00pm to 9:00pm . Generally there are a few different levels of attendees . There's those who are just cruising through the class to pick up the other sex . . . and then again there are people who are looking for some help with their own pc's in the form of tech help, removing spyware and learning how to install hardware etc . Basically it's a community class open to anyone with interest in anything that's electronic from pc's to vcr's and ipods . It serves a lot of good for people who are out of warrantee . . . . . and so are their computers . A lot of senior citizens attend . From time-to-time there are representatives there from major companies . . . of course the publicity is good for sales but they are not allowed to round up customers while they are on the campus . After the lectures or presentations, groups go off to clusters that are generally involved in seperate situations that are common to that cluster and they have a lively question and answer period . There are no degrees or scholastic certificates involved and there isn't any graduation either . Nobody graduates . . ever . BTW: . . . . love this: "defluffing fans" . . . that's gotta be NZ! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 413374 | 2005-12-17 23:28:00 | There was a reported problem some years ago. If the sockets were tin plated, and the memory sticks had gold plated edge fingers (or the other way around) , it was alleged that over time there could be some migration/reaction causing poor contact. This was with SIMM sticks. The chemistry would be the same with DiMMs, SODIMMs and whatever your memory packages are called now. ;) I imagine tinplated sockets cost a fraction of a cent less than gold plated ones; ample cause for a manufacturer to use them. :cool: After all, this process would take a while, and it might not happen to everyone ... temperature and humidity would have major effects. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 413375 | 2005-12-18 00:43:00 | Thanks Graham . . . I am still playing with this puter for the hell of it . . . . so far got this going on: SLOTS are numbered 0, 1, 2 (0 closest to the rear of the tower . . . strange and not the way I would do it . . . but it's a Dell!) got some RAM with: 128, 64, 64 Putting the RAM into the slots in the order they appear here, I get 192 k on the splash . If I move the sticks around and put the 128 in #2 slot, I still see 192 . Put the same sticks in another Dell and in the wrong positions (smallest in 0 slot) then I get 192 . If I put the 128 in 0 slot, then I get 256 . Try that in the Dell of question, I get to the XP green beads running and then going to the next screen . . . BLACK . Now . . . . I just know that I cannot get to the vid driver until I get at least signed on . . any ideas? I had this old Dell on 98SE and it ran ok . . but that's not a challenge to me . . I just gotta get this to work! It worked well there with 98SE . I have 2000Pro and ME too . . . I might try to go all through the installs of each and every one of them just to see where the wheels fall off! Ain't this fun? :badpc: <picture of a man trying to understand slot numbering sequence on Dell puters> |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 413376 | 2005-12-18 01:09:00 | what chipset is the pc useing? is the 128 dual sided (chips on both sides) or high density (ie only 4 chips on one side) ?? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 413377 | 2005-12-18 01:12:00 | single sided.....???? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 413378 | 2005-12-18 01:12:00 | I didn't mean to state that I didn't understand...I just wonder what the single-sided-ness means..that's all... the stick in question is single sided..as are the 64's |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 413379 | 2005-12-18 02:27:00 | how many chips on the ram stick? mind you sometimes its just incompatible, or the bios dosn't read the ram seting properly or dosn't know how to use them. a few pc have bios updates to fix such problems. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 413380 | 2005-12-18 02:45:00 | I don't know if Dells have re-writeable bios or not...could be.....I remember the trouble I had with the W95.CIH.damaged file last year and the reflash I had to find, install and everything before the payload got delivered...PHEW! the sticks on the Dells are all one-sided at this moment..and the 128 has 8 chips, the 64's have 4 each. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 413381 | 2005-12-18 13:52:00 | Try that in the Dell of question, I get to the XP green beads running and then going to the next screen . . . BLACK . Now . . . . I just know that I cannot get to the vid driver until I get at least signed on . . any ideas? Have you tried safe mode? Or perhaps there is a problem with the video card . this has happened to me before when the video card was dying (and a similar problem also with a bad motherboard) . |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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