ssh/ethernet hanging...

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 09/13/2011 04:12 PM, Peter King wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:59:10AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>
>> Run memtest for a long while, to see if there are problems with the
>> memory or mom board.  It could be something is flakey.
>
> That's good advice, especially since this board has had troubles with new
> memory just recently. Perhaps it never really recovered. It turns out that
> if you search on ASUS A7V8X-X, there are loads of complaints about just how
> sensitive it is to memory types, and how the production run quality is very
> uneven -- one person had eight or nine boards running, and two were terribly
> flaky as regards memory whereas the other six or seven were not... So even
> when the MB was new it wasn't a clear winner, it seems, and aging probably
> hasn't improved it.

If it's from the faulty capacitor era, that too could be causing weird 
problems. We had a Dell server that was doing random reboots which was 
finally resolved only after Dell eventually replaced the motherboard. 
We'd been through power supply, RAM, and CPU. In short, there wasn't 
much left to replace other than the disk drives and motherboard and the 
latter did the trick.
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