PC
I think I've finally solved a couple of PC problems at home.
I need to run Java Studio Creator, for a home project I'm working on, and it has a minimum requirement of 1GB RAM. I only have 512MB, so I bought a couple of 512 MB DIMMS on eBay to upgrade. But my motherboard didn't like them. In fact, my motherboard liked each of them individually. Indeed, it liked all of them, but only one at a time in only one of the slots. I figured two of my slots were bad, and bought a replacement motherboard on eBay.
I put this in last weekend, but the system wasn't happy, and wouldn't boot with the mix of DIMMs. I'd left it at the defaults for the memory settings. I downloaded and ran a copy of memtest86, which revealed that my system wasn't at all happy. Now, I don't know a whole lot about motherboard memory timing, but I thought I had it set to some fairly conservative values. I cranked it up to faster settings, and memtest86 ran fine, but still Linux froze after a few hours. I tweaked a setting, and it was happier, then one more and it seems to be running fine now.
Another consequence of the new motherboard, is that my sound and networking are no longer fighting one another. I'd had this problem that whenever I played a sound (MP3, game, whatever), the network would stop temporarily. In fact, the download, stopped, but the upload remained OK. Weird. Well, everything's fine with the new mobo.
Now, isn't this even less interesting than my running posts?
I need to run Java Studio Creator, for a home project I'm working on, and it has a minimum requirement of 1GB RAM. I only have 512MB, so I bought a couple of 512 MB DIMMS on eBay to upgrade. But my motherboard didn't like them. In fact, my motherboard liked each of them individually. Indeed, it liked all of them, but only one at a time in only one of the slots. I figured two of my slots were bad, and bought a replacement motherboard on eBay.
I put this in last weekend, but the system wasn't happy, and wouldn't boot with the mix of DIMMs. I'd left it at the defaults for the memory settings. I downloaded and ran a copy of memtest86, which revealed that my system wasn't at all happy. Now, I don't know a whole lot about motherboard memory timing, but I thought I had it set to some fairly conservative values. I cranked it up to faster settings, and memtest86 ran fine, but still Linux froze after a few hours. I tweaked a setting, and it was happier, then one more and it seems to be running fine now.
Another consequence of the new motherboard, is that my sound and networking are no longer fighting one another. I'd had this problem that whenever I played a sound (MP3, game, whatever), the network would stop temporarily. In fact, the download, stopped, but the upload remained OK. Weird. Well, everything's fine with the new mobo.
Now, isn't this even less interesting than my running posts?