[Novalug] Bad component

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Wed Apr 11 06:23:31 EDT 2012


Do they even *have* DIP switches anymore?

jf

On Apr 11, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Ed James wrote:

> This one's a long shot, but it's what happened on my very first
> home-built machine.   One of the dip-switches on the MoBo was
> set incorrectly (something about which CPU was installed) so
> it ended up sitting in a box for years.  Obviously it had never
> been tested when I bought it.  Would double-checking the
> switch settings on your system be worth doing?
> 
> Ed James
> 
> On 4/10/12, John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org> wrote:
>> I have a gigabyte 970a-ud3 with an AMD FX-4100. It boots but cannot complete
>> an OS install without blue screening or segfaulting/panicing. (Tried both
>> Ubunu and Windows).
>> 
>> I've tried two different sets of memory, so I doubt it's the memory. I've
>> also tried gobs of BIOS settings.
>> 
>> Which component do you think is more likely to be bad: the CPU or the
>> motherboard?
> ...
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John Franklin
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