On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:46:35 +1000, Barbara Baker <jenspen@optushome.com.au> wrote:
After 11 hours the same black screen. Goodbye 9.2
Recently I started getting segfaults when compiling. My memory is relatively new so I tried reseating it; the problem disappeared. Then today I started getting scsi errors on one of my drives. So I copied the whole partition to another drive on the same controller, thinking I had a drive getting ready to fail; more of the same scsi errors told me the drive was not causing the problem. Time to open the case again. More than once, I've had a box which had intermittent problems with the covers on, but with the covers off, would run fine. So today, I removed all the screws from the motherboard mounts, except for one in the top left corner, farthest from the adapter cards. That reduces stress between the adapter cards and the motherboard slots when the covers are screwed back on tight. It doesn't take much physical stress to create poor electrical connections between adapter cards and their motherboard slots or between memory sticks and their sockets, even when they *appear* to be seated properly; it's the cause of many intermittent problems which are hard to diagnose. They just don't make 'em like they used to. -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?