Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

[Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net>]

J. Roeleveld wrote:
> Please don't bother this list with more of your complaining until you grow up 
> and learn how to use computers properly.

I built my first machine nearly a quarter century ago. =|

That said, I spent the day doing diagnostics:


Findings:

1. There were a hell of a lot more memory errors than I had seen before.
2. There was a smudge on one of the dimm's contacts and some of the
usual dust on the CPU-facing one.
3. The motherboard was not developed by sane engineers. In a sane world,
there are two types of variables: measured variables and controlled
variables.
The RAM voltage would appear to be a controlled variable but it is also
a measured variable. In order to achieve a close approximation of 1.5v,
I had to set it to 1.530 volts. WTF...

4. an AMD K10 processor cannot successfully drive 8-ranks of high
density ram at 2x800 mhz -- BUT IT WILL TRY!!! I found all dimms to be
good either individually or in pairs, but the entire ram compliment of
four dims cannot be run at full speed at once with the CPU/motherboard I
have installed.

5. I found a set of settings that went through memtest fine but caused
linux to segfault and die. I backed off the FSB a few notches while
adjusting the multipliers to stay within the specified frequency for the
processor and it seems to be OK now.



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