On Mar.08.2013 11:27 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote: >> Nearly every time we've had lockup problems it has come down to bad or failing memory. >> >> I've even had memory cause problems where it would pass a quick memtest but ultimately would fail if you left it running >> the tests overnight. > Thank you for your reply. > > I was leaning towards memory after swapping the power supply did not > solve the problem. There are 4 8GB DDR3 sticks, so I took out two and > ran with 16G. It still failed. I then swapped that out for the other > 16GB. Still failed. What I haven't tried is to downclock the memory to > a slower speed but will try that tonight if the BIOS supports it. > _______________________________________________ > A diagnostic board should, at least, limit the search space. Characterizing the tyoe(s)/point(s) of failure may make it possible to handle them more gracefully. -- david