Dear gurus,
I have an IBM Thinkpad laptop, model 1200 1161-210. It has been experiencing spontaneous crashes/reboots and then often crashes/reboots during subsequent startup attempts, giving a brief message about a physical memory dump. I ran the Microsoft memory diagnostic and it failed every category of test. As I understand it this indicates defective RAM.
The (defective) RAM in my laptop is non-removable (soldered in). It seems like all I could do is to repair it is to buy more RAM and put it in the upgrade slot. But I don't know if this will fix the problem. If I add good RAM, will this eliminate problems caused by the bad RAM that I can't remove? How should I proceed?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
John
I have an IBM Thinkpad laptop, model 1200 1161-210. It has been experiencing spontaneous crashes/reboots and then often crashes/reboots during subsequent startup attempts, giving a brief message about a physical memory dump. I ran the Microsoft memory diagnostic and it failed every category of test. As I understand it this indicates defective RAM.
The (defective) RAM in my laptop is non-removable (soldered in). It seems like all I could do is to repair it is to buy more RAM and put it in the upgrade slot. But I don't know if this will fix the problem. If I add good RAM, will this eliminate problems caused by the bad RAM that I can't remove? How should I proceed?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
John