On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
> *Occasionally I hear of people booting their motherboard on an antistatic > bag or on top of the box that the motherboard came in, but I generally > try not to do that.* > I have done this though I also wouldn't recommend it. The main reason beyond shorting something is that you can easily damage things when the power supply slides off the table taking your board with it or you try and push a piece and have no real resistance because the board isn't mounted. Its just prone to stuff breaking. *If this fails, then the next thing to try is "memory combinations" -- if > there > are two sticks of RAM, try one stick in each of the slot positions, then > the > other stick, and so on. Sometiems memory can fail and cause a failure to > POST. I don't why, but I've occasionally had memory stick(s) fail > spontaneously.* Also the slots can go bad or have poor/dirty contact. I run memtest which should be in the grub boot options on almost any live Linux CD. IMHO if a stick is to blame it usually fails in the first few seconds of running. Matthias A. Johnson
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