[plug] RAM for Laptop Needed

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 4/26/06, Patrick Coleman <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:
> -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
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I've got a bit of (probably 64MB) SDR for notebooks lying around...
You can try those. It may be PC133, PC100 or PC66 I can't remember
offhand...

Tomasz