Memory loss.

[elfs]

This morning, while hacking away at my laptop, I had the strangest realization: half the memory was missing. Instead of the 128K, it reported having only 64K. What's more annoying, when I rebooted the BIOS reported the same thing. After powering down and removing all peripherals, I cold-booted and all the memory came back.

So now I know: never cold-boot with a PC card in. That seems to be the trigger that makes the memory disappear. Why this should be, I have no clue. But I can consistently make this happen on my Thinkpad 600E, which annoys me no end. Another-work around seated in physical habits. I can't stand those.

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[fallenpegasus]

One of the memory slots in my TP went bad on me. I whenever I would coldboot or come back from hibernation, I would have to carefully watch the BIOS memory display, and if it was wrong, shut down the boot, open the door to the memory slots, pull the memory, reinsert it, and reboot again.

Finally I gave up. An extra 64MB wasn't worth the aggrivation and wear.

Buh, yeah... after reading this post... I feel a bit silly. :-)

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I was taking Elf's comments at face value about K, not mentally double-checking if it should be M. If it was a laptop with 128K of memory, well, losing 64K to a PC card is quite easy with the BIOS-extenders. If it's 64M... that's pointin' at failing chips somewhere along the line.

Re: Buh, yeah... after reading this post... I feel a bit silly. :-)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It was megabytes, not kilobytes. My fault. Yeah, basically about half my memory disappeared.

I hope it's nothing too serious. I love this little thing. It's lasted me a good year plus so far. It's never given me a bad day. I've been giving it a harder workout recently, thanks to having better internet access and plenty of on-line music and stuff to download.

Hey, Mark, what did you do to get it to behave? Seattle Laptop, or just cram a 128MB card into the good slot?

Re: Buh, yeah... after reading this post... I feel a bit silly. :-)

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

Talk to jassad, who works at Seattle Laptop, and is my water brother...