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<font color="#000000">On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote: </font>
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<pre><font color="#000000">andylockran wrote:</font>
<font color="#000000">> Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the</font>
<font color="#000000">> last 20 years.</font>
<font color="#000000">> </font>
<font color="#000000">> I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to</font>
<font color="#000000">> the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a</font>
<font color="#000000">> couple of cases).</font>
<font color="#000000">> </font>
<font color="#000000">> So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?</font>
<font color="#000000">I've had 4 in the space of a 2 weeks :) Turns out the PSU was toasted</font>
<font color="#000000">and was blowing each of the newly RMA'd boards up. Lesson learnt pay</font>
<font color="#000000">some money for a decent PSU because I've never lost a board after</font>
<font color="#000000">investing in a decent one.</font>
<font color="#000000">Chris</font>
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<font color="#000000">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...</font><br>
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<font color="#000000">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:</font>
<pre><font color="#000000">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)</font>
<font color="#000000">it does'nt seem to like.</font>
<font color="#000000">Jai</font>
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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?<br>
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Cheers<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>With the way the an MB connects to the processor, I'd point to the MB before anything else.<br><br>JAi<br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>
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