[plug] RAM for Laptop Needed

[Patrick Coleman]

-On 4/25/06, Daniel Pearson <gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I have my old Toshiba Satellite 3000 here, P3 800 128 Ram, etc.. and I'm wanting
> to setup Linux (Thinking of Fedora, or Ubuntu) on it. The only problem is, I
> can't get anything to install without a Kernel panic and such. The last time I
> encountered this problem, it was RAM.
>
> I've done a test on the hard drive (IBM DeathStar aka Deskstar) and the utility
> reports it to be ok.. running memtest86, spat out a few errors.
>
> I was after someone allowing me to borrow some RAM, to see whether it definitely
> is the RAM that is hindering the process - and if that's the case, then I can go
> and buy some! I just don't want to go and buy some, find it's not the RAM, and
> be stuck with some useless RAM :)

I've got three 256MB DDR SODIMMs I'm looking to get rid of - when I
bought my laptop I upgraded to 2x512MB so they're basically new. If
your laptop will take 256MB PC2700 CL2.5 SODIMM chips (sounds like it
might not... :) then you're more than welcome to give them a try.

-Patrick