From: bfink (bfink_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Sep 10 1998 - 13:59:15 EDT
>Subject: Re: [tp770] warning and query
>Sent: 9/8/98 3:44 AM
>Received: 9/10/98 10:51 AM
>From: David Ross, ross_at_math.hawaii.edu
>To: Ray Bayles, kglp_at_cia-g.com
>CC: bfink_at_ix.netcom.com
> THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
>
>> As far as I know, the Viking has a lifetime warrantee...
>> The only memory modules I have seen fail in a thinkpad were
>> and IBM and a Kingston... I have never come across a documented
>> case of failure due to a non-IBM approved module
>
>I think the operant point here is that if the module is *not*
>"Thinkpad proven" then IBM can claim (rightly or wrongly) that the
>module might somehow be at fault. Incidentally, on the 64 meg chip they
>sell for the 380/760 etc, Viking does *not* mention the original 560 in
>their packaging; I wonder if this means that their warrantee doesn't
>apply if something goes wrong with my chip?
>
This is exactly the point. What I'm going to do is an involuntary
upgrade to 96MB--I just bought a bona-fide 32MB IBM memory chip (it's not
significantly more in context of a >$3000US machine!) and I'm going to
toss both chips in and see how they work. If I have to, I can then pull
the Viking chip and start hassling with the mail order vendor who sold it
to me, and still have the 64MB that are a minimum for the work I need to
do.
rwf
PS: Gawd! 96MB of ram. My first computer had 3K (not M) of ram. And
it had a 19" display, too. (OK, it hooked up to the TV set, but still.)
And that blazing cassette-tape storage drive...
Anybody want to guess the machine?
:)
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