If you reseat the CPU, be careful with the heatsink. I have pulled out an AMD chip out of a socket with the socket engaged by trying to remove the heatsink. The heatsink compound can get gooey enough to act like a weak glue. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Brett Russ wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Brett Russ <bruss@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> wrote:
I agree that the power supply is suspect. You can measure the voltage
Alternatively, it may be easier to just try a replacement.
I have a new one on the way. I'll reply here with the results.
Well, brand new power supply and the system behaves the same problematic way as before.
So next try is the memory, as another list reply suggested. I've had memtest86 running against both DIMMs for 47+ hours and counting, 70 total passes so far, and 0 errors. Remember I'd already tried removing first one DIMM, then the other, and the problem repro'd either way. So by these measures it'd seem the memory is OK? I know some mem problems take days to show up so I'll just leave this running for a couple more days anyway.
Not much more I can do here, as I've seen repros with most everything else unplugged so I'm now thinking it must be the motherboard. Perhaps I will try reseating the CPU--haven't done that yet.
Recall the system is having trouble POST'ing: it hangs at various points before BIOS POST completes, i.e. I don't get a confirming 'beep' at end of POST and in some cases the monitor won't wake, other cases the BIOS splash screen stays splashed, etc. The full original email is here: http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/2012-September/008059.html
Anyway, if anyone has other ideas here I'd welcome them.
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