BSOD

[dsigma6]

just wondering how often other 600 series users get the BSOD?

i gave mine to my girlfriend, and the first time she used it, blue screened when she shut it down. she said she didnt do anything, but i dont want her to think i gave her a defective laptop!

EDIT:
i've read that the memory for this unit should have 8 black chips on each side- mine have 4- perhaps that is why i get the BSOD? even though i had it sometimes before i added memory.

[tfflivemb2]

Only the Low Density 256mb sticks have to have 8 chips on each side. The 128mb sticks have 4 on each side.

The 600/600Es that I have worked on haven't had too many blue screens, unless there was either a memory or software problem.

Do you know what the error was?

[dsigma6]

i dont know the error but ill keep looking for the next one.

it has a 256mb chip with 4 chips on each side. that seems like it could be the culprit. i didnt know the difference when i bought it, and the price was right!

[BillD]

Yep,sounds like high density memory.. Thats ptobably your problem...

[dsigma6]

does high density pose a greater risk than just the occasional BSOD? could that fry the motherboard?

[tfflivemb2]

It will most likely just cause stability problems with the OS, but it is very unlikely that it could cause physical damage.

The only extreme possibility that I could think of, would be the system locking up and overheating, but again very unlikely.

[BillD]

does high density pose a greater risk than just the occasional BSOD? could that fry the motherboard?

As TFF said it's HIGHLY unlikely the wrong memory type will cause damage. The worse I can think of happening is one of the BSOD screwing Windows up so much that you may have to re-load Windows.. That happened to me once on one of the many 600's I've been playing with .. I was swapping sticks in and out of one of these 600's and got a few BSOD's.. Finally after a BSOD Win2000 wouldn't load,I had to format and start again...