Thanks,

I have 2 CRIMM strips on order.  Although I didn't find the memory on eBay,
I was told of a good site that has memory for about $40-50 per 256MB module.
http://www.pacificgeek.com/showcategory.asp?c=208&s=1020&fi=0&offset=0 

Thanks,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Price
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:37 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Failing RIMM memory

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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