On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:01 +, James Dalley wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die
in the
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind
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Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
couple of cases).
So how common
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
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Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit
- Farran Lee wrote:
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware side
of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all?
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its pretty much
useless. You can tell, by if they bulge
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:21 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
- Farran Lee wrote:
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the
hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot
at all?
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a
Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware
side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all?
The main problem
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:31 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware
side of computing. Is it
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- Farran Lee wrote:
not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the
hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not
boot at all?
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
system? Or would it just need certain fixes?
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
system?
Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely
Farran Lee wrote:
okay, so I definitely won't have to change anything? Somebody mentioned
it somewhere... not here though.
I've changed totally CPU, Motherboard and chipset and still had Ubuntu
booting first time. Windows however...
Chris
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andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
couple of cases).
So how common is it? Have you had
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:29 +0100, Farran Lee wrote:
slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and
it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it
back now...
sysinfo doesn't report the correct size anyway, on my 768MB system it
reports 757MB
Steve
Is it not just that its stealing a bit for the Graphics?
I have had a mobo die on me, but it was my fault, I'd been using a 300W PSU
on a dual-core system (too lazy to go buy a new one)... didnt stop me
claiming a new one off the warrenty though ;]... though I did get round to
getting a 600w PSU
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of
You still have your 2GB of RAM.Just gfx is stealing some of it, and probably
putting it to better use.;)
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