My Dell Latitude D620 died
Murphy’s law says “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong”.
That’s the thing that happened yesterday evening. It was about 6pm plus when my laptop could not boot properly. The screen was a bit fuzzy when I detached the external LCD monitor and somehow it froze a few times. I had tons of emails to reply to on this wedding blog project…..
Then I saw it. The dreaded Blue screen of death infamous in the days of Windows 98 and Windows 2000. I saw a lot of that during my days as a Customer Engineer. I never fathom to see that on my wife’s 1 year old laptop. What a hassle.
Being an ex PC support engineer, I took that laptop apart.
So the message said something about Memory parity error. What a dumb thing to happen. Took me about 20 mins to open the latch and keyboard to find the RAM Slot A. Took it out, sprinkle some of my sliver on it and replace it back. I wonder why DELL uses this type of cheap RAM. Its not even a Kingston. ha!
Booted the laptop again and it still looks fuzzy. The display still shows the Blue screen of death and I’m just about to kick ths thing. Called DELL telephone support but they only work until 6pm. Don’t they know computer problems always happen after 6pm. I need to take a rest now. Sigh.
Update : 30 Oct. 1050pm
My Dell laptop works now. Deleted the Nvidia driver. Suspected that it won’t work with the new BIOS A08 version that was in it. Now running on just the VGA driver. Will downgrade BIOS to A04 version in awhile.
What a complicated design ? Need to take off keypad then only can replace ram ???
Did u rub the ram with eraser on the contact? It might help…
Well, all branded PC manufacturer using OEM spare parts mostly from china… haha
This is why DELL laptop is cheaper…
Comment by didi — October 30, 2007 @ 6:17 pm