[P1] Faulty ram slot

[Wiebe Wilbers]

I agree. Here in Australia, it isn't very expensive to get a tech to have a
look at the computer ($AU30), so if that is a similar price where you are
(or you don't mind spending whatever it is) then I would get someone to give
a definitive answer as to what the problem is. Who knows, maybe a connector
in the card slot is bent or something, and perhaps is quite an easy fix...

On 3/8/03 3:00 AM, "Jack Rodgers" <jackrodgers at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 10:46  AM, Translation wrote:
> 
>> I bought used this 500mhz ibook. Everything works fine. I tried to
>> upgrade
>> the ram with 4 different ram sticks. 1 128 one from a wallstreet, a
>> 256 from
>> a Pismo, a 256 from a TiBook, and today, and original apple 256 ram
>> stick
>> pull from a 14 inches iBook. None of them work. I go to get info and
>> system
>> profile and only shows the default 128, the slot as empty. At first I
>> thought the ram was not the appropriate, but after today I think that
>> the
>> slot is the faulty one. Has anybody heard anything like this before? I
>> read
>> all the posts here and no explanation so far. can a faulty ram slot be
>> fixed/replaced without paying apple 350 for a logic board swap?
> 
> Can you return it as defectie?
> 
> Before you spend money on a repair, consider that if you a) got your
> money back b)sold it noting it has a problem you might add the repair
> costs to the money from the sale/return and get a new iBook for the
> same amount.
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