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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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...