Re: What part of a fried GS is salvageable?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Neil Parker writes ...
> 
> ....
> 
> It all started one day when I noticed some strange behavior in the Finder--
> things were crashing a bit more often than usual, and icons were turning
> into snow. ....
> 
> Sure enough--bad memory.  So I took out my Apple 1-meg card, and brought it
> in to a friend who repairs Apple II and Mac equipment.  That's when the
> real trouble began.
> 
> We plugged the card into my friend's GS ....
>
> So we tried it the other way--we found some more known-good chips and tried
> plugging them into my board.  The Appleworks GS memory tester found that
> these too had suddenly gone bad.
> ....
> 
> All told, we managed to ruin an entire container of previously-working RAM
> chips that evening.  I had to start over with a completely fresh supply of
> RAM chips, and a new board as well.
>

     A tale like this automatically makes the reader feel ... Fortunate!

Rubywand