From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F09138010 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC403E0330; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED74E02C4 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB6DC6E0B for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([77.75.108.10]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1jDzmKaS-Kxe for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5084DC6E08 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:31 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.9-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <502DF7D0.8010200@wonkology.org> <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> <503D30C7.1000209@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <503D30C7.1000209@wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208290115.30740.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 34333019-5db9-421c-a185-1ec227128c3a X-Archives-Hash: beb5bd7aac60a18655d98b1c24593586 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. -- Rgds Peter