Dead memory slot?

I have an IBM T30 and i guess at some point of it career of 2x256 meg sticks one of the slots decidied to stop working. Its not the memory itself (tryed 2 differnt other sticks), nor was it seated improperly. Ive owened a few laptops and ive never had this problem. Any one else ever have this happen, and anyone who may have a suggestion to an easy fix that im forgetting?

 

My fujitsu exhibit the same problem as yours.
It ended up having the the system board replaced. It's a $1000 fix for a $1300 notebook. But warranty comes to the rescue.
It's an easy fix since I didn't have to do anything
Bad slot, that's what it is.

 

Since its an old notebook and probably out of warranty, I suggest that you buy a 1gb stick and install it on the working ram slot. This is if your laptop will take 1gb, if it won't then buy a 512mb stick. I think your laptop uses 200 pin ddr333 or pc2700 ram.

 

I would buy memory, but i figure it would be pointless because I plan on getting new laptop within the year.

 

One of the slots on my old Thinkpad 600E died, I just maxed out hte memory in the other slot.

 

Most of the Sony GRX's (and some other models) have exhibited this behavior due to bad solder connections on the back DIMM holder, I have been living w/ it for over a year now -- in one of the longest threads I have ever read there are all sorts of solutions which work for a time and involve folded cardboard and electrical tape to hold the connector against the motherboard (there is also a guy in Westchester County NY who will do the re-solder for $160) -- after using those effectively for several months but then going back into the land of sudden-freeze because the DIMM wiggled what I ended up doing was cutting a tongue depressor to just slightly wider than the door of the DIMM compartment and wedging it in so that it arches over the DIMM connector when the door is on and presses it back against the motherboard...has not frozen up on wiggle in 6 months...

Not sure it if applies to your machine but worth looking into....saved mine...

 

The problem with that being the issue is that mine boots fine, so its tell me that the slot is totaly dead. It doesnt hang on boot or anything.

 

MIne didn't hang on boot either -- just came up w/ only the 1st (front) slot active and 256MB of RAM instead of 512MB -- when using some of the less severe (than the tongue depressor) methods to repair it, typing too hard could cause the machine to freeze-up when the DIMM holder wiggled and shorted against the motherboard....

 

This is a problem that is known from IBM. I sent mine in at the tailend of my 3 year warranty and had the motherboard replaced. From what I recall, the problem was due to overheating.

HTH