errors during buildworld
Mark Kirkwood
markir at paradise.net.nz
Sun Oct 9 17:52:51 PDT 2005
Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-Oct-09 14:03:04 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> Cooling isn't the only hardware problem. Marginal PSUs or marginal
> electros on the motherboard are also quite common - especially if
> the hardware is getting old. Electrolytic capacitors have a finite
> life and this is shortened by heat and high ripple currents - both
> of which are common in computers.
>
To try to nail this down, I reinstalled BETA3 (which had previously
never had this problem) and performed a buildworld. I am seeing internal
errors there too now, so looks like you are correct (time to break out
that spare motherboard).
Cheers
Mark
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