Hi guys,
So yesterday... about one month out of warranty of course... I find my Verus Pro with a blue screen. I reboot, and nothing but a black screen. Literally, you turn it on and the green power light comes on and that is it, never even reaches the "S" splash screen or anything let alone windows etc.
I took it apart to start isolating as much as I could, and I found that the RAM had failed. I swapped in a stick from my Toughbook scan tool and the Verus fired right up without issue. Amusingly I tried the bad stick in the Toughbook and it doesn't have any problem with it, but back in the Verus it goes back to black screen again. Odd.
Kind of weird to see something like that so early (or even at all, I mean really RAM is pretty reliable these days), but I figured in case anyone else runs into a similar scenario it is a place to check before submitting to the ridiculous repair prices Snap On charges. A $20 stick of RAM and 15 minutes is much more agreeable than ~$1000+ or whatever the tiering starts at now.
I was pretty disappointed to read it couldn't boot on a 4gb stick either, I was really hoping for another boost after the SSD replacement. Oh well.
So yesterday... about one month out of warranty of course... I find my Verus Pro with a blue screen. I reboot, and nothing but a black screen. Literally, you turn it on and the green power light comes on and that is it, never even reaches the "S" splash screen or anything let alone windows etc.
I took it apart to start isolating as much as I could, and I found that the RAM had failed. I swapped in a stick from my Toughbook scan tool and the Verus fired right up without issue. Amusingly I tried the bad stick in the Toughbook and it doesn't have any problem with it, but back in the Verus it goes back to black screen again. Odd.
Kind of weird to see something like that so early (or even at all, I mean really RAM is pretty reliable these days), but I figured in case anyone else runs into a similar scenario it is a place to check before submitting to the ridiculous repair prices Snap On charges. A $20 stick of RAM and 15 minutes is much more agreeable than ~$1000+ or whatever the tiering starts at now.
I was pretty disappointed to read it couldn't boot on a 4gb stick either, I was really hoping for another boost after the SSD replacement. Oh well.
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