Hi,

Try eBay &/or look for 'CRIMM continuity' boards or modules. Use 2 of these 
and you should be able to run just 2 sticks and thereby locate the faulty 
individual.

Regards

Michael.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Szlatenyi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:33 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Failing RIMM memory


I have an older Gateway 700X computer with an Intel (Lexington 2) Pentium 
4 - 2.4-GHz / 533-MHz mother board. It has 4 256MB RIMM 800 PC memory cards. 
It has been giving me a number of errors and when I ran Microsoft's memory 
test the memory failed. I tried re-seating all the cards and then tried 
removing 2 of the 4 cards but the machine would not boot. I think I need all 
4 cards in place to boot up so I'm having problems finding which card is the 
faulty one by going through a process of elimination. A new card cost 
$140.00 which is pretty ridiculous for old slow memory but I would like to 
salvage the machine. I'm told that there is a C-RIMM spacer which can be 
used to replace a card and still have the machine boot up normally but I 
can't seem to find a source of supply for one. Any suggestions on a way 
around my problem, a way to identify which card is bad, or a reasonable 
source of supply for 256MB RIMM memory?

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