Hi folks, I'd really appreciate your insight in proceeding with my issue. The story:
I bought a second hand HP Elitedesk 800 G4 Mini to run my living room TV: play movies, Youtube and some light gaming. It has fantastic specs and I got a great deal (red flag) from a reputable 2nd hand IT shop with good feedback (green flag). The day after purchase the seller wrote to me on eBay saying that their technician has found one of the DIMM slots is faulty and asking if I'd still like the machine with a further discount. I've already bought a second 8GB SODIMM but I can exchange it for 16GB.
My question is: in your experience what can cause a DIMM slot to become faulty, and is it likely that other parts of the motherboard are also faulty? Would you step away from this purchase altogether, or accept it with discount? I'm going to call the shop today to find out the nature of the fault, whether they've checked the CPU pins, and whether it has any warranty left from HP- can you think of any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks in advance
I bought a second hand HP Elitedesk 800 G4 Mini to run my living room TV: play movies, Youtube and some light gaming. It has fantastic specs and I got a great deal (red flag) from a reputable 2nd hand IT shop with good feedback (green flag). The day after purchase the seller wrote to me on eBay saying that their technician has found one of the DIMM slots is faulty and asking if I'd still like the machine with a further discount. I've already bought a second 8GB SODIMM but I can exchange it for 16GB.
My question is: in your experience what can cause a DIMM slot to become faulty, and is it likely that other parts of the motherboard are also faulty? Would you step away from this purchase altogether, or accept it with discount? I'm going to call the shop today to find out the nature of the fault, whether they've checked the CPU pins, and whether it has any warranty left from HP- can you think of any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks in advance