I bought some memory to upgrade the Pacman PC. SURELY this will go off without a hitch.. surely it will. Okay, let's talk about it, in a 🧵 here!
So, as you saw from the intro picture, we're now showing 1.5 GB of memory in this lovely system. The system booted up into Hannah Montana Linux 😂. That's fine.. we can ask it how much memory it sees. Looking good!
Oh, here's the memory installed. Let's kick off MemTest86+
And here we are, sometime later. Geez. So based on the placement here, two out of the three sticks are bad. I also had a fourth stick, and it was bad too. So, 75% failure rate in this batch.
I pulled out one of my Pentium II systems to see if I could use it to test, but its mobo won't support 512MB DIMMs. But, I don't think this is a mobo issue, I think the memory is bad. Such is life! To be continued. Thx for following along!
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