On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:30 +0100 Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: > > I wrote: > > > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things > > > will be okay then. > > [...] > > So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it > > might be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the PC > > shop diagnose CPU and board. This took until today, and they > > confirmed it was the board indeed, not the CPU. > > Let me get this straight. The shop ran tests and concluded that the > motherboard was faulty, not the CPU? > > > Fine, I bought the board > > ...it having been tested and found faulty! > > > guess what - it doesn't work. > > Sorry, but I must be misreading this. You've said that the board was > diagnosed faulty, but you bought it anyway and it turned out faulty. > Where is the mystery? > > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault. > No, not at all. He means (just read the whole mail with a view to understanding the communication, not finding the grammar faults) that the shop diagnosed the old board was faulty so he bought a new board which involved a week's wait. That board now might be faulty too. Most obvious cause: Something is breaking the motherboards. Most obvious root cause: PSU Rule #1 in dealing with odd weird strange computer faults is ALWAYS test with another PSU of at least twice the capacity you think you need. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
