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 9A6BC1381F4 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C13121C005; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9D1E0790 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.43] (xdsl-78-35-185-234.netcologne.de [78.35.185.234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D6838DC04A for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:41:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:41:56 +0200 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 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] My PC died. What should I try? References: <502DF7D0.8010200@wonkology.org> <3485581.aiICU322tR@energy> <502E8A72.3090600@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2632f4f2-fa4c-4c57-9770-78bdb84e0670 X-Archives-Hash: a7e6fd006f9a62d89c40e9297fec4e38 Paul Hartman writes: > If you are using a video card (instead of built-in/on-board video) I > would try a different video card, if you have an old or spare one. I > have had lots of video cards die from overheating and power spikes. Sorry, I did not mention that I do not have a video card, it's onboard video. I do not need great video power, and I wanted to have a quiet PC that also saves power. > I only had one motherboard ever die, a computer I gave to my father > died after a few months... it was ASRock brand but I'm sure that is a > coincidence. :) It had blown/cracked capacitors all over the > motherboard. It did not die completely at once. It would "kind of" > work, but started to crash randomly and became worse and worse until > finally it wouldn't boot at all. I replaced the MB, but kept the same > CPU, RAM everything else, and it has been working ever since. That was > after we bought a new power supply that didn't make any difference. I'd also say this is unusual. I had a board die, but that was my own error :) Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. Thanks for all your responses! I know this is not really related to Gentoo, but that's what I love this list for, people are very helpful and competent here. Wonko