J. Roeleveld wrote: > Please don't bother this list with more of your complaining until you grow up > and learn how to use computers properly.
I built my first machine nearly a quarter century ago. =| That said, I spent the day doing diagnostics: Findings: 1. There were a hell of a lot more memory errors than I had seen before. 2. There was a smudge on one of the dimm's contacts and some of the usual dust on the CPU-facing one. 3. The motherboard was not developed by sane engineers. In a sane world, there are two types of variables: measured variables and controlled variables. The RAM voltage would appear to be a controlled variable but it is also a measured variable. In order to achieve a close approximation of 1.5v, I had to set it to 1.530 volts. WTF... 4. an AMD K10 processor cannot successfully drive 8-ranks of high density ram at 2x800 mhz -- BUT IT WILL TRY!!! I found all dimms to be good either individually or in pairs, but the entire ram compliment of four dims cannot be run at full speed at once with the CPU/motherboard I have installed. 5. I found a set of settings that went through memtest fine but caused linux to segfault and die. I backed off the FSB a few notches while adjusting the multipliers to stay within the specified frequency for the processor and it seems to be OK now. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.
