From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I8dO0-0005qH-N8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:41:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6BEeZ7w026870; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:40:36 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6BEaDcv022013 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:36:14 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20070711143612m11000aqcqe>; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:36:12 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A11529B44 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:36:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:36:12 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM? Message-ID: <20070711093612.23227300@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1184110152.6875.91.camel@orpheus> References: <1183681500.6798.36.camel@orpheus> <1184110152.6875.91.camel@orpheus> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a90d6cf4-4364-490f-90d1-b3fb000bc790 X-Archives-Hash: c771feff9e7b47e09529129abd7b5ebd On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:59:12 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: > I hear a bios beep, and that's it. > Maybe it's a MBoard issue? Maybe a video card issue? Hmmm, I don't > want to replace the whole lot! Ever hear of a POST code? if not, look up the post codes for your bios / motherboard and you may be able to get a head start on diagnosis there. >> Often power supplies will run ok can then glitch causing a >> reboot. It cannot hurt to swap the power supply to see if that >> fixes the random reboots.... This happens sometimes with cheap power supplies, it's true. One temporary and inconsistant solution is to remove all unnecessary power suckers, like hds, case fans (which evidently do nothing for you anyway) and cdrom. That might get it working, but not for long no doubt. >the system is a bit strange. Sometimes it shows a CPU clock of >2999MHz, >sometimes 3000MHz; sometimes the RAM shows DDR398, sometimes DDR400. >It's always the same for one particular run of memtest, but sometimes >changes between boots. Wow, that is wierd. Have you tried looking for BIOS updates? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list