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I thought the "reseat the RAM" advice was a meme until a Gateway desktop from 2003 proved me wrong
For 4 years I rolled my eyes every time a forum thread ended with "just reseat the RAM," because it always sounded like a cop out. Then a customer brought in an old Gateway running XP that would not post, and I had already quoted her $85 for a diagnostic plus whatever parts came up. Pulled both sticks, hit the slots with compressed air, clicked them back in, and it booted straight to the desktop. Now I do it before I even open a ticket, and I want to know how many of you have had a "too simple to work" fix actually pay off like that.
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jade27122d ago
Bro that Gateway just wanted you to pay attention to it one more time before it retired. Honestly the fact that you quoted her $85 and the fix was literally zero dollars is so funny in a painful way. I used to work on old Dells and HPs and yeah, reseating RAM is real tech magic, not a meme. Half the "dead" machines I ever touched just had a dusty stick that walked itself loose over 15 years of vibration. Tbh compressed air and a firm click have saved me more times than any fancy tool. The hard part is admitting to the customer that you charged them for a diagnosis when the answer was "push it back in.
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