When is a computer not a computer?
When the ram goes kerblam! We were gone for the weekend, so the computer was turned off. When I turned it on, all I got were a few blinks and a few beeps, one of which wouldn’t stop, and then nothing. Subsequent restarts yielded the same result. I had seen this before so I called the manufacturer, my son, to confirm my suspicion that yet another memory stick had failed. Sure enough, when I pulled the oldest ram stick out, the computer came alive just like the old days, only slower. Now, I have... Sign in to see full entry.