Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe > not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only > as strong as its weakest link. It could be that whatever is going > wrong could be right on the edge of others not working either. The > one that is failing is just the first if it is a power problem. > That's where the power problem thought comes from. Have you had a > look here for well tested power supplies? > That said, it could be a lot of things. It could be a bad chip on the > mobo, a piece of dust in the wrong place or any number of other things. > It's finding it that is so much fun. The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's just fine. (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.) So it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement for the broken one. > Again, lots of things it could be. So far, everybody has replied with > good ideas to check. There are lots of them. Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down! > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
