From: "Don Penlington" (while talking about a Super Slow PC,) said:
> There's also a faint possibility that if the HP is more than 3 years old, 
> RAM night be failing. The timing could be just coincidence. That's pretty 
> unlikely though.

The bulk of your post was very detailed and instructive, (thanks)
but raises one question.

The above is an interesting statement.
If it had said "hard drive" I'd have bought it completely. <grin>
(And I was personally involved in the video chipset "problem"
a couple years back that required the MB<s> to be replaced.)

Background:
When I get an HP Laptop the first thing I do is replace all the RAM with good
quality third party larger sizes. (*Maxing out* the machine when new...)

My question is as follows.
I thought *quality* RAM pretty much lasted forever after the burn-in period
was over? ( I hoped HP gave quality RAM.)
OR (an important distinction) is this more of a problem with the sockets or the
MB in general?

I have only seen bad RAM once, and I think I was wrong about *it* even then... ;-(
As always, YMMV (and mine too).

Rick Glazier

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