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Re: hardware errors



On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 21:01 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Yep. Halfway through the third pass; no errors yet. I'm not holding my
> > breath.
> > Any ideas on where to read up on those error messages, to figure out
> > what they actually mean?
> >
> > Richard
> 
> Don't know about other people, but when the memory subsystem starts
> giving me grief, I generally vacuum around the motherboard and other
> internal stuff, re-seat the cable connectors, and pop the memory and
> I/O boards out, clean the contacts, and re-seat them, too.

I tend to use compressed air instead of vacuum, but the effect is the
same ;). Unmounting and remounting is a good advice, cleaning usually
isn't needed.


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