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On Saturday, August 22, 2015 1:52:00 AM Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > Please don't bother this list with more of your complaining until you grow |
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up |
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> > and learn how to use computers properly. |
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> I built my first machine nearly a quarter century ago. =| |
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Shame! |
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> That said, I spent the day doing diagnostics: |
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> Findings: |
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> 1. There were a hell of a lot more memory errors than I had seen before. |
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> 2. There was a smudge on one of the dimm's contacts and some of the |
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> usual dust on the CPU-facing one. |
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> 3. The motherboard was not developed by sane engineers. In a sane world, |
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> there are two types of variables: measured variables and controlled |
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> variables. |
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> The RAM voltage would appear to be a controlled variable but it is also |
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> a measured variable. In order to achieve a close approximation of 1.5v, |
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> I had to set it to 1.530 volts. WTF... |
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> 4. an AMD K10 processor cannot successfully drive 8-ranks of high |
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> density ram at 2x800 mhz -- BUT IT WILL TRY!!! I found all dimms to be |
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> good either individually or in pairs, but the entire ram compliment of |
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> four dims cannot be run at full speed at once with the CPU/motherboard I |
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> have installed. |
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Findings 3 & 4 sound like a faulty or underrated PSU...or a bad motherboard. |
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Start by unplugging everything that you don't need to boot from a live CD and |
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run some tests. |
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> 5. I found a set of settings that went through memtest fine but caused |
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> linux to segfault and die. I backed off the FSB a few notches while |
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> adjusting the multipliers to stay within the specified frequency for the |
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> processor and it seems to be OK now. |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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