[ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

[Farran]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:01 +0000, James Dalley wrote:

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>         On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote: 
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>                 andylockran wrote:
>                 > Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
>                 > last 20 years.
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>                 > I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
>                 > the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
>                 > couple of cases).
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>                 > So how common is it?  Have you had a motherboard die on you?
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>                 I've had 4 in the space of a 2 weeks :) Turns out the PSU was toasted
>                 and was blowing each of the newly RMA'd boards up. Lesson learnt pay
>                 some money for a decent PSU because I've never lost a board after
>                 investing in a decent one.
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>                 Chris
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>         slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system
>         info, and it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2!
>         Definitely sending it back now...
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>         From what you have put on pastebin the problem seems to be
>         with the first half of the second core(CPU3), which  its
>         throwing a fit about, also this cron job:
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>         Apr 17 13:09:01 farran-desktop /USR/SBIN/CRON[15286]: (root) CMD (  [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm)
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>         it does'nt seem to like.
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>         Jai
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okay... that's interesting. Why would that be? Can it be fixed or do I
need to RMA it or something?

Cheers

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Farran Lee
I'm only 15 :-P
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