--- James Cameron <quozl at us.netrek.org> wrote: > > Zach, > > There is hardware that will test the RAM on BIOS and > identify which > stick is broken. > > memtest, on Knoppix CDs, and as a Debian package, can > test RAM but > usually cannot identify which stick. > > Some hardware even has ECC and detection circuitry that > will log the > event to a small processor on the system board. > Examining the event log > can show the fault. This hardware is generally more > expensive than > consumer hardware. > > I've no idea what Bob is using. It's not that important > exactly what he > is using, but at least I've explained some of the > options. G'day James, I see. Thanks for the elucidation. Do you have any options for determining whether a mother board has gone bad or whether it is certain card(s) or both? On my first computer about 12 months after I had it one day I powered it on but no boot noises or anything showed up on the monitor. So I took it to a shop and he said the mother board apparently short circuited and took out the RAM/video card/sound card along with it! I wish I had a way to verify this before paying for a new mboard/RAM/video/sound. I suppose one card could short circuit for various reasons (over heating, dust, humidity) and and this could over-load the motherboard and take out additional cards or is it more likely something happened to the mother board (I had computer plugged into surge suppressor strip but I realize this is not same as UPS with voltage high/low protection) and it caused the other things to fail? Anything I can buy at Radio Shack to do the testing myself? Are there any How-To guides on using such equipment as a voltmeter? Another time my monitor refused to come on so just when I was about ready to get rid of it I let the computer sit idle for a week unplugged and next time I pressed the monitor power button it worked! But subsequently I discovered the monitor would only power on if i booted with it powered off and then powered it on during a certain point in the boot cycle! Wish I could figure out this one. Zach > > -- > James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > vanilla-devel mailing list > vanilla-devel at us.netrek.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-devel > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ vanilla-devel mailing list vanilla-devel at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-devel