Sunday 20 June 2010

PC testing via elimiation

Well, it's been several days since we last had a crash on the new PC so I am beginning to think that it may have been solved, huzzah!

There were two small things I did which may, or may not have helped here: adjusting the cables between the motherboard tray and the removable side door so they, and the Molex/fan connectors are not squashed. And finding a poor quality Molex with a pin pushed half out by inserting the other plug, which may well cause noise on the PSU rails and errors.

Seeing as the fault manifested itself as a nonspecific 'memory error' I am well inclined to believe that a fault in the QPI transmission would cause an error like this, and bumping the QPI voltage should help to fix it.

More as I get it! And bike stuff next time too.

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