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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Yikes. Curious though - what model was it exactly?
It's not unknown for the memory socket to go bad or even the memory controller, but I do wonder if a memtest would have picked something up sooner (on the occasions that it would actually boot)
If you have time and feel so inclined I'd try reseating the CPU as well if possible (given the memory controller is in the CPU). Just in case it's something fixable.
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It's a Sony Vaio VPCEA range i3. The exact vpcea model escapes me at the moment, need more caffeine this morning!
Managed to get Sony's inbuilt hardware tests to run early in testing but they didn't do a proper memory test. If I can get it to boot up again with the two sticks in i'll do the memory tests and see if anything comes up although I'm doubting it will. Had problems getting it to boot my multi-iso usb pen with all those kind of tools on, so i'll have to find one of those old fashioned cd things
I'll try reseating the cpu although it does have a brace over it with 4 screws holding it and a heatsink in place and then an extra screw for luck. Didn't do it yesterday as I had already had a pile of about 24 tiny screws and then came across the memory slot problem. Also got that sneaking feeling that if I fiddle too much more, it's going to stop working completely, even with just the one memory stick in lol.