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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:46:45
Message-Id: 200510090442.04828.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory by Ted Ozolins
1 On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:52, Ted Ozolins wrote:
2 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 > >>I ask because I can't get a complete compile of glibc. I have to
4 > >>restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete.
5 > >>
6 > >>
7 > >>Let me know what you think.
8 > >>--
9 > >
10 > >yes it is completly possible.
11 > >
12 > >But it is also possible, that your PSU is not powerfull enough. A big
13 > > compile needs a lot of processing power and stresses the ram, so a lot of
14 > > current is needed - and some PSUs aren't able to cope with such a load
15 > > -exspecially if they are cheap and/or a little bit older.
16 > >Try another PSU, do you still have problems, RMA the ram.
17 > >
18 > >Memtest86(+) is known not to find all errors.
19 >
20 > I had the same problem here, Changed RAM and still the same prob.
21 > Changed PSU, glibc compiled just fine. This was on an MSI MB with an AMD
22 > 750 Duron.
23 >
24
25 I had 4 PSUs so far going weak - sometimes the box only booted after the nth
26 try, sometimes it suddenly crashed, segfaults and so on. Almost everything
27 that you could also blame on faulty memory or bad cooling.
28 That's why I always blame the PSU first, if it is not a quality brand one ;)
29
30 I have an enermax for more than a year now (should be almost two, if I
31 remember correctly) since then, all this problems vanished.
32
33 I friend brought a PSU which had a defect - I started it - boom it exploded..
34 for the second time, we learnt, after disecting it ;)
35 Another one killed his PSU, when he connected a big old scsi-drive - burned
36 capacitors and transistors don't smell nice ....
37
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