[wellylug] hardware errors

[Cliffp]

On 11/06/14 20:55, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 11/06/14 20:51, Cliffp wrote:
 >>
>> Cut your losses and replace the RAM? Seriously, if you find errors, you
>> are going to replace it anyway.
>
> Well, yes - unless it turns out to be the CPU, or the northbridge or
> something. Not much point splashing out on RAM for a machine that's to
> be scrapped because it's too expensive to fix.
>
Yep, totally agree, but you can use the RAM in your next machine.

I've spent too many hours of fruitless diagnostic tests on a machine 
which was fixed by a seemingly unrelated hardware upgrade (MB, CPU, 
whatever) to place much faith in hardware diagnostic tests.

I totally agree with you, but the only *definitive* test is to replace 
the suspect hardware.

Cheers,

Cliff