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Wayyyyy-hey! I unplugged Charlotte, opened her up and had a good look round, and discovered that there was one circuit-board-thingy held in by plastic clips that had escaped from its clip and come loose. It's butted right up against the IDE cable that was one of the things that got fiddled with when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
topbit opened her up to fix the power supply, so it looks like it got jogged loose during that job.
Anyway, I pushed it carefully back into place, clipped its clip shut, put the case back on, plugged in, booted up and checked My Computer > Properties with bated breath...
...and she's back to 384MB RAM, just as she should have been. So it's not been blown and I don't have to spend money I don't have to make her functional again, and with a bit of luck these infuriating constant crashes will stop now. YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
Many thanks tosantaman for prodding me into doing that.
I still feel like crap and probably won't be online much for the next few days, but at least I can do stuff again now. Phew.
topbit opened her up to fix the power supply, so it looks like it got jogged loose during that job. Anyway, I pushed it carefully back into place, clipped its clip shut, put the case back on, plugged in, booted up and checked My Computer > Properties with bated breath...
...and she's back to 384MB RAM, just as she should have been. So it's not been blown and I don't have to spend money I don't have to make her functional again, and with a bit of luck these infuriating constant crashes will stop now. YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
Many thanks to
santaman for prodding me into doing that. I still feel like crap and probably won't be online much for the next few days, but at least I can do stuff again now. Phew.
