[mythtv-users] Fwd: Further Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 22:31:31 UTC 2010


> Is there something about the 285s that make the system more susceptible to
> this sort of problem? I ask because I have a dual-275 machine and I'm thinking
> about putting a pair of 285s or 295s into it.
>

No this was just a troublesome motherboard. I bought it used on eBay
and the seller offered to throw in oem heat sinks for free. Well I did
not know he would pack all of it in the same priority mail box. To
make a long story short the heatsinks damaged at minimum a few  caps
which I replaced. After replacing the knocked off caps the board
worked 100% stable with a pair of 850 for 3 or so years. Although I
did see in the logs from time to time a MCE logged for ECC. In early
2008 I bought two 285s for around $125 each and after installing them
the machine would spontaneously reboot 1 time per week. I removed 1
CPU and it was fine again. Put in the other instead and no problems.
Put both back in and same 1 reboot per week.

John


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