Don't rule out the rest of the hardware either. I've replaced several motherboards, a few hard drives and a couple of sticks of memory over the past year.
Good reason to keep an extra system around for testing. But that doesn't catch the slow death of bad UDMA and almost good memory. Jim Tarvid On Monday 24 February 2003 05:46 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:17, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 24 February 2003 05:05 pm, flacycads wrote: > > > Since Praedor seems to be having many weird problems as posted on the > > > list, I'm thinking it might be a power supply and/or temperature > > > problem. The > > ... > I've had that thought as well. > > > Hmmm. I always spring for the super cooling fan on my (AMD) cpus. I > > have a huge double fan cooler with heat compound. My power supply is a > > bit tepid, a 250 Watt job that I will replace with my next paycheck, but > > the fan is fine. I also have an extra case fan installed. I cannot > > recall what cooling system resides on my chipset...I believe it is a > > large(ish) heatsink instead of a fan. > > Going from 250W to 300W cured the stability problems on my 900MHz > Athlon, which had frequently manifested as inability to compile things > like kernels and XFree86. > > > I don't have lm_sensors. > > Highly recommended, though a big PITA to set up. > > > It would seem odd, however, that this heat effect is only apparent in 9.0 > > with 2.4.19 or 2.4.21 kernels. There were no problems of this sort in > > 8.2 with the 2.4.18 kernel. There is also a difference in the nature of > > the problems wrt usb between 2.4.19 and 2.4.21 such that it makes me > > suspect a change in the kernel code rather than a problem with hardware, > > per se. > > that too. 2.4 has been a kind of rocky road as far as the word "stable" > is usually used, actually had me considering *BSD for a bit until I > installed the stuff on some systems.
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