[wellylug] I think my motherboards gone.... :-(

[Ian Sterling]

Did you try with the other stick of RAM in there instead?  You could
have a bad stick of RAM there.

--Ian...


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:54:33 +1300, Jethro Carr
<dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> hi brent,
> 
> I just tried the following:
> 
> Took out 1 ram chip & tried with the remain 1. Then did the same with
> the other chip. With only 1 chip, the system didn't even report how much
> ram there is.
> 
> I found that the whine comes from my hard disk. I unplugged it, and the
> whine stopped, but the system still locks after ram check. Maybe I had
> just never noticed it before.
> 
> I've also tried taking out the add in cards, including the video card.
> No luck. :-(
> 
> The CPU tempature is fine, I managed to check it in the bios. (sometimes
> I can get in, sometimes I can't.)
> 
> I'll have to take it into ascent tomorrow. (custom built system).
> 
> I'll get them to try diffent ram, power supply & cpu, before replacing
> the motherboard.
> 
> I hope I can get it back before christmas day...
> 
> thanks to all the people who gave their ideas.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 11:42, Brent Wood wrote:
> > > Yesterday, I turned it on. Just after grub started the kernel, the
> > > system locked up. I had booted it up the day before, and I had made no
> > > changes to any configuration. I turned it off & started it again. This
> > > time it locked up, just after the ram test, before the drive test.
> > >
> > > I've noticed a slight whiny noise too, which never existed before.
> >
> > Whine suggests a cap, maybe just a fan. Try stopping each fan for a sec or two,
> > to make sure it isn't a bearing whine. If you can, swap the power supply to
> > make sure that isn't the problem (or the source of the whine). Ditto graphics
> > card.
> >
> > Also note that you can sometimes hear memory when under load, a slight whine
> > there. The whine, if slight, may be misleading, as you may not have noticed it
> > until you have a problem, then you tend to notice everything!!
> >
> > Depending on where you purchased the motherboard I can get a forward replacemnt
> > for Gigabyte stuff, usually within a couple of hours during working hours.
> > There is a local importer as well as a couple in Auckland.
> >
> > Also, check the cpu temp in the BIOS as you boot. If you can get into the BIOS
> > OK, & muck around for a while, then it fails after you reboot, it suggests that
> > perhaps the fault is elsewhere.
> >
> > So, disconnect drives, swap power supply, graphics card, if you have more than
> > 1 memory module, use just one at a time.
> >
> > Note that if you purchased it (shock, horror) as a system, rather than
> > components, you should prob contact the supplier ASAP, as you mucking about, if
> > they find out, may have warranty implications.
> >
> >
> > The power down helping with a cap would apply to power supply, graphics card &
> > motherboard, so while it may well be the m/b, it isn't necessarily so.
> >
> >
> > I've stuck with socket 939 & Nvidia for A64 systems, socket 754 seems to be a
> > very short term beast between 32 & 64 bit. AMD are already talking about
> > phasing it out. Touch wood, no hardware problems yet, but A64 Linux & SATA are
> > not always very friendly :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >    Brent
> --
> -- Jethro
> 
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