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It's alive!!! (and not)
As a last ditch effort, I decided to completely repeat all troubleshooting
steps on my GX620. I pulled everything out -- memory, hard drive, DVD burner. No keyboard, no mouse, no LAN. Nothing. I then took a known good DIMM and tried it (by itself) in each memory socket. Surprise, surprise, in socket 3 or 4, the machine booted. I know I tried this before and it didn't boot, but perhaps I was confused. So, I moved the two DIMMs to 3 and 4 and it is alive. I can live without 1 and 2, since I only need 1Gb in this machine. Weird, but happy. oops, before I could even send this, it died again. Third boot. Lights 3 & 4. Wonder what could cause an intermittent problem? |
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It's alive!!! (and not)
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:59:48 -0400, "Tom Scales"
wrote: Surprise, surprise, in socket 3 or 4, the machine booted. I know I tried this before and it didn't boot, but perhaps I was confused. So, I moved the two DIMMs to 3 and 4 and it is alive. I can live without 1 and 2, since I only need 1Gb in this machine. Weird, but happy. oops, before I could even send this, it died again. Third boot. Lights 3 & 4. Wonder what could cause an intermittent problem? Congrats on the persistence! I often say that I can "hack my way" through problems, but maybe that's what professionals do too (to a certain extent). |
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It's alive!!! (and not)
Did you get Memory Parity Error messages?? My money is on a bad
Motherboard... "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... As a last ditch effort, I decided to completely repeat all troubleshooting steps on my GX620. I pulled everything out -- memory, hard drive, DVD burner. No keyboard, no mouse, no LAN. Nothing. I then took a known good DIMM and tried it (by itself) in each memory socket. Surprise, surprise, in socket 3 or 4, the machine booted. I know I tried this before and it didn't boot, but perhaps I was confused. So, I moved the two DIMMs to 3 and 4 and it is alive. I can live without 1 and 2, since I only need 1Gb in this machine. Weird, but happy. oops, before I could even send this, it died again. Third boot. Lights 3 & 4. Wonder what could cause an intermittent problem? |
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No, oddly no errors. When it boots, it runs flawlessly.
I did, however, get a NIC failure on startup when it worked. Feels like the motherboard going blooey (a highly technical term). First desktop to EVER fail on me. "Paul" wrote in message ... Did you get Memory Parity Error messages?? My money is on a bad Motherboard... "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... As a last ditch effort, I decided to completely repeat all troubleshooting steps on my GX620. I pulled everything out -- memory, hard drive, DVD burner. No keyboard, no mouse, no LAN. Nothing. I then took a known good DIMM and tried it (by itself) in each memory socket. Surprise, surprise, in socket 3 or 4, the machine booted. I know I tried this before and it didn't boot, but perhaps I was confused. So, I moved the two DIMMs to 3 and 4 and it is alive. I can live without 1 and 2, since I only need 1Gb in this machine. Weird, but happy. oops, before I could even send this, it died again. Third boot. Lights 3 & 4. Wonder what could cause an intermittent problem? |
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Sounds like the error is between the keyboard and the user ;-0)
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It's alive!!! (and not)
Exactly what my E510 would do. Every once in a great while after
disconnecting everything, rubbing my belly, patting my head while turning in a CW direction while flying a kite, then reinstalling everything, it would boot. But never for very long. "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... As a last ditch effort, I decided to completely repeat all troubleshooting steps on my GX620. I pulled everything out -- memory, hard drive, DVD burner. No keyboard, no mouse, no LAN. Nothing. I then took a known good DIMM and tried it (by itself) in each memory socket. Surprise, surprise, in socket 3 or 4, the machine booted. I know I tried this before and it didn't boot, but perhaps I was confused. So, I moved the two DIMMs to 3 and 4 and it is alive. I can live without 1 and 2, since I only need 1Gb in this machine. Weird, but happy. oops, before I could even send this, it died again. Third boot. Lights 3 & 4. Wonder what could cause an intermittent problem? |
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