Tristan wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:24:48 -0500, winston19842005 wrote:A new symptom has developed:Intermittent power supply issue? Not stable?That's my guess. I killed far more RAM than I feel safe admitting like that.
FWIW, there are power supply failure modes that will apply a substantial overvoltage to the main board, killing essentially every chip on it. I did this once when "trying out" a power supply whose health was unknown, and the board even "crackled" as it died. ;-( -michael NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."