If you're really feeling ambitious, you can replace the capacitors on the motherboard (or at least in the old days you could).
Good luck! dan On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Goren Buckwalk <goren.buckw...@mail.com> wrote: > Having not been warned off, I'll post another. > > I have a system with two AMD Athlon 2400 MP processors and the motherboard > has 4 slots for RAM. It still runes squeeze (too lazy to upgrade, sorry). > About a year ago it locked-up and on reboot it beeped like crazy before the > POST got very far. I started to go through and remove one stick of RAM at a > time to see if it was bad, and on the first one, the one in slot 4, after > taking it out, it rebooted and worked fine. So I figured that stick was just > bad and left it at that. I didn't have any other sticks of the right DDR type > and I didn't bother to replace it. > > About a month ago, I found the box crashed again and beeping on reboot, so > going through the same elimination process found only the stick in the first > slot would work. It seemed odd two sticks could go bad at the same time, so I > tried them in that first slot and both worked. I tried adding some back and > no matter the combination except for one single stick, always got a > beep-fest. So I think all the RAM is good, but the last three slots are bad > (or maybe just the 2nd is bad, and then the 3rd and 4th can't work without > the 2nd??). > > Looking closer I see three capacitors on the board (nearer to the CPUS than > the ram slots) have a rusty looking coating on the top. One is worse looking > than the other two (eh?), the two have some part of their tops that still > look shiny silver. I've heard of capacitors going bad on motherboards, but > never saw any. Is this rust a sign of failure and could their failure be the > cause of the RAM slot problems? > > Other than the lockups/memory beeping I've never really seen any issues with > this system (did replace bad drive once or twice). It has > boinc/seti/asteroids, webserver(s) and other stuff running (except when > running BOINC its not heavily stressed but generally is doing _some_ work > pretty much all the time). > > Are three rusty capacitors and 3 bad slots just a coincidence? Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131212191132.50...@gmx.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caophiz+8yofdukiy_4tzobjrizbu+debpsen3pxjp_kk7kt...@mail.gmail.com
