T30's (and A31p's) sensitve to certain Kingston 512 mb dimms

[kchung]

If you have a T30 (or an A31p) with the Kingston KTM-TP0028/512 memory dimms, watch out for random crashes, especially if you're running Windows XP.

The early revisions of the this memory had a silver, stainless steel cover over the dimm chips - I was told by a Kingston rep that this is not a heat sink but was for strengthing the dimm as they supposedly were finding customers were having issues with damaged dimms when they installed them and the dimms flexed when they were put in the sockets.

The new versions of the dimms don't have "shields" on them at all.

Supposedly Kingston knows about this issue and should be able to exchange your dimms for new ones. Just make sure you tell them you do NOT want the stainless steel cased ones when they return memories to you.

-Kevin

[scosgt1]

I have probably gone thru 100 of these, never had a problem

[ian]

You've put a 100 DIMMS in your laptop? Wow, where d'ya put em all - I've barely got room for a fag paper in mine...

[scosgt1]

And FAG has a different connotation on this side of the pond

[ian]

Bloody hell - sorry, I'd forgotten about that - I did, however raise a few eyebrows when I used to work in Houston - "Want to come out for a quick one after work?" - seemed perfectly reasonable to me to ask a work colleague if he wanted to go and have a drink after work...

[kchung]

I have probably gone thru 100 of these, never had a problem

All I can say is that if an user had a T30 running WinXP and it was having random crashes, we'd replace the memory with the new rev Kingston without the metal shell and no more crashes... Interestingly enough though the same systems with the old memory running Win2k didn't have any crashes at all - it was re-imaging them with XP that caused the memory related crashes. Go figure...

-Kevin

[scosgt1]

Bad memory will cause XP not to load.
You probably had a bad batch
It happens
Nothing wrong with Kingston memory