Paul Hartman writes: > If you are using a video card (instead of built-in/on-board video) I > would try a different video card, if you have an old or spare one. I > have had lots of video cards die from overheating and power spikes.
Sorry, I did not mention that I do not have a video card, it's onboard video. I do not need great video power, and I wanted to have a quiet PC that also saves power. > I only had one motherboard ever die, a computer I gave to my father > died after a few months... it was ASRock brand but I'm sure that is a > coincidence. :) It had blown/cracked capacitors all over the > motherboard. It did not die completely at once. It would "kind of" > work, but started to crash randomly and became worse and worse until > finally it wouldn't boot at all. I replaced the MB, but kept the same > CPU, RAM everything else, and it has been working ever since. That was > after we bought a new power supply that didn't make any difference. I'd also say this is unusual. I had a board die, but that was my own error :) Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. Thanks for all your responses! I know this is not really related to Gentoo, but that's what I love this list for, people are very helpful and competent here. Wonko