Hi,
so we come back to the earlier comment, which after rewording becomes
"Are you willing to chase your tail in an endeavour to fix a piece of junk?"
Cheers,
Derek.
p.s. my experience with memtest has not been conclusive, but I know of
one second
hand computer store that sold computers with reliability problems. memtest
reported issues with their ram, and they refused to believe me. That
firm is now gone.
I did have a problem identical to the original poster with my son's
computer.
We chased our tails on this issue for a bit, and then gave up and went to a
store that sold PCs to your specs and it has been brilliant...
On 21/10/14 17:29, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 17:00:29 NZDT +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
I think we have neglected to mention the possibility of a faulty
power supply.
True. I was thinking of it coming under the heading "swap components
until it works again", but it doesn't hurt to mention it explicitly.
It is possibly easier to try a different supply from another computer
instead of swapping cards.
Another one I heard recently is that SATA DVD drives, when faulty, can
interfere with and stall the boot process. Pull off SATA cable, try
again.
Btw I found memtest86+ to be only so-so. If it flags an error there is
a problem, but if it doesn't it means absolutely nothing.
Basically, good luck. If the lockups are only every month, or every
week, it's impossible to find the problem. Any fault that can't be
triggered can't be fixed (other than by total replacement).
Volker
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