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