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Subject:Re: Vanagon List Outage (Friday/Sat)
Date:Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:28:14 -0800

Chris & Bryan;
I have as have my associates purchased new mem chips from BEST only to
have them all fail,EDO ram also,more frequent than I care to imagine,as a
result we have contacted their superiors, If you do business with BEST,be
aware.
Regards, Roy
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 09:14:16 -0500 Bryan Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
writes:
>Are you sure the rest of the hardware on that machine is on the "NT
>Hardware Compatability" list?  NT is VERY picky about what it will run
>on.
>I've never seen multiple RAM chips go bad UNLESS they are all from a
>bad
>batch, but your VAR should have recalled them if this was the case.
>
>Bryan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Christopher M. Smith [SMTP:csmith@SDSC.EDU]
>Sent:   Saturday, November 29, 1997 8:00 PM
>To:     Vanagon@GERRY.SDSC.EDU
>Subject:        Vanagon List Outage (Friday/Sat)
>
>I'm still not sure what caused our list outage Friday/Saturday. It
>could
>have been the backlog of messages or one of the two remining original
>RAM
>chips. The server came back up without much trouble. I did, as a
>precaution, remove ALL the remaining original RAM chips. I can't
>imagine
>one of our new 32 MG RAM chips being the problem.
>
>Chris
>Vanagon list admin
>

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