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 1F1C9138010 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ECC2E019D; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF23E04AB for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p578b7bed.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.139.123.237]) (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 35388DC04A for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:41:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <503DE3BD.6080304@wonkology.org> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:41:17 +0200 From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; 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> <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> <503D30C7.1000209@wonkology.org> <201208290115.30740.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201208290115.30740.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 131b9646-3301-40e0-971c-c324b7339201 X-Archives-Hash: 3a6b8cffda8845ac9843767ade467ab9 Peter Humphrey writes: > 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? Yes. >> Fine, I bought the board > > ...it having been tested and found faulty! Well, obviously not the defective board I already owned, but a new one of the same type. Yes. Defects happen, and because one specific board suddenly has a problem after working fine for half a year, I do not assume that all of these boards will likely fail. And it seems to be the only board having the features I want, at least in the price range of about 100€. Most have two memory banks only, so I would either have to use only 8GB out of 16 GB, or buy new RAM. And I want on-board graphics, I do not want to buy an extra graphics adapter that needs power or has a noisy fan. There were NVidia boards I think, but I prefer Radeon, that finally seems to work just fine, after having lots of trouble in the past with both NVidia and an older Radeon system. Wonko