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tritium · 02-27-2005, 07:07 AM

Best of luck, high_way. I had a Toshiba laptop for exaclty 366 days when a pice of on board SDRAM fried. One second I was checking email, then a bluescreen memory dump, a reboot and a POST MEM error. Couldn't get it to do ANYTHING even after removing my aftermarket mem ... no knoppix... nadda. Cracked the case open after much research only to find that the 256MB of factory memory was tightly integrated into the motherboard.

Guess whose overseas, barely-English-speaking tech support department refused to help troubleshoot over the phone and wanted $250 just to listen to me talk at the system?

Yeah... I'm using a Dell now... and Yes, I'm still bitter.

02-27-2005, 07:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
tritium Professor of Drinkology	Best of luck, high_way. I had a Toshiba laptop for exaclty 366 days when a pice of on board SDRAM fried. One second I was checking email, then a bluescreen memory dump, a reboot and a POST MEM error. Couldn't get it to do ANYTHING even after removing my aftermarket mem ... no knoppix... nadda. Cracked the case open after much research only to find that the 256MB of factory memory was tightly integrated into the motherboard. Guess whose overseas, barely-English-speaking tech support department refused to help troubleshoot over the phone and wanted $250 just to listen to me talk at the system? Yeah... I'm using a Dell now... and Yes, I'm still bitter. __________________ Blah.