From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng4wA-0006P2-BK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:28:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B32E0E0B0B; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f211.google.com (mail-gx0-f211.google.com [209.85.217.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B448E0B0B for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so2703038gxk.6 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:28:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xDKcyGPxEpbbaag1prKjaW4xdpM1VWUtgF4j0TnQS/E=; b=d4M2iriM9G3T6JtFaGREclptE18GnRYUgZslBe1Sntl7PVps44rsvd3dyJsdfgSVCK bLulPSxYiBVhSfzpgiNkGGu0L9dXTntpRf3OPa6ZwGE8ywd44fTq9AcGNSxpwqpxPLCM RA0Lzt6kgZaMzTSk2LYGtz3dzOE0XlMVsaEFc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=K/hovvB0XCv17WwZb5oRmUDu0kVCz0kSiU0SoWPS6LENuT7Lw3LrldOkV2GUA9+Iwa eTvh3ySu7BztduUafSqyB/jieFQeOmxTFu337euy1DF3WFospMsJ37fSB9M+sbdG5H3k g6I8BPXoTHLhugiYP8BuhY3+aVDC2EB8uaTEQ= Received: by 10.101.181.32 with SMTP id i32mr3167533anp.7.1266017282210; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:28:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-92-152.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.92.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm1569979ywd.59.2010.02.12.15.27.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:27:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B75E3FB.6070603@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:27:55 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100205 Gentoo/2.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it! References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212112221.GA1422@muc.de> <20100212124330.GB1422@muc.de> <4B754D02.3010700@gmail.com> <20100212132335.GC1422@muc.de> <4B756535.3050404@gmail.com> <20100212192524.GC1560@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20100212192524.GC1560@muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0b31c86d-1022-4459-8ada-1f110a982a80 X-Archives-Hash: 790ec2c4ffb8dc945523860c468ecd35 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > Hi, Dale, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe >> not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only >> as strong as its weakest link. It could be that whatever is going >> wrong could be right on the edge of others not working either. The >> one that is failing is just the first if it is a power problem. >> That's where the power problem thought comes from. Have you had a >> look here for well tested power supplies? >> > >> That said, it could be a lot of things. It could be a bad chip on the >> mobo, a piece of dust in the wrong place or any number of other things. >> It's finding it that is so much fun. >> > The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with > just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's > just fine. (It went ~20 minutes on memtest86 without any errors.) So > it looks like I'll be running on 2Gb only until I get a replacement for > the broken one. > > >> Again, lots of things it could be. So far, everybody has replied with >> good ideas to check. There are lots of them. >> > Many thanks to all who helped me track this one down! > > >> Dale >> > >> :-) :-) >> There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no surprise at all. Glad you got it sorted out and that is better than a lot of other options. Since it is new, I hope you have a good warranty that will make it a cheap fix as well. Dale :-) :-)