[wellylug] hardware errors

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Wed Jun 11 22:03:47 NZST 2014


On 11/06/14 21:32, Cliffp wrote:
> 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.

True. Next step is where to get DDR1 400MHz RAM ... doesn't seem to be 
common.

Thanks,

Richard




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