Re: [PLUG] It's working! (Was: More hardware woes)

["Keith C. Perry via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Perhaps not all it was but this kind of thing can get filed under something that would have changed in your environment.  Rich M can explain this much better than I but he helped me with an issue like this before.  I think the TL;DR has to deal with conductivity changes in the memory slot.  That can happen in a number of ways- including vibration, dust, static electricity build up, etc..

Maybe related to fretting corrosion? (e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/208884472_Overview_of_Fretting_Corrosion_in_Electrical_Connectors)

Some people include this step whenever they are working on hardware since it can't hurt.  I think it might even be recommended in A+ training.



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Subject: Re: [PLUG] It's working! (Was: More hardware woes)

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 11:31:36AM -0500, Keith C. Perry via plug wrote:
> Congrats!  Still a mystery but yea, it's win.
> 
> Re-seating memory eh?  Yea, that's a thing isn't it.  Easy to forget.

But if that's all it was, then it wouldn't have booted up for me at
home, before it didn't boot up!
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