Where's the culprit?

[Isaac Connor]

You may wish to look closely at the capacitors on the MB.  I have had a 
lot of that era MB's go bad due to the caps leaking/expanding.

I also have a pile of that model and similar MB's+CPU's lying around.  
Would be happy to find a ne home for them.

Isaac

On 11-09-06 03:12 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:17:15AM -0400, Peter King wrote:
>> In the end there seem to have been two culprits, each hardware-related. On
>> the one hand, there seems to have been some bad memory, as shown by the page
>> faults even on boot via dmesg. I pulled the new memory I had installed, put
>> back in the old stick that had been in there, and so far no memory problems.
> How many sticks total did you put in there?
>
>> The other culprit seems to have been the gigabyte ethernet cards -- I guess
>> the system is too old to handle that speed, because with two different cards
>> I kept getting lockups in ssh (or rsync over ssh). Again, I pulled all the
>> gigabyte cards and reverted to the on-board 100Mbit ethernet controller. So
>> far no lockups.
> The A7N8X-E-DX from the same era has gigabit onboard and works fine
> with it.  So it should not be too slow for gigabit.  It may not be able
> to use the speed fully, but it is still fine to use and much better
> than 100Mbit.
>
>> No silk purse out of this computer sow's ear, I suppose. Thanks for the help
>> and suggestions.
> I suppose the motherboard could be getting flacky in general.
>

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