[geeks] mac geek question

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, velociraptor wrote:

> Yes, a reliable geek buddy told me about RAM problems on an x86 box so
> he put it through torture testing--and opened the case because of an
> odd smell.  Doing so revealed glowing traces on the RAM sticks.  I do
> not recall the manuf. at the moment.

I smell an urban legend.  Assuming this is dynamic memory, it was
getting refreshed, anyway, so it's not like additional gets/puts to
memory will increase the voltage flowing at it.

More than likely, if that actually happened, he had a bad power supply.

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