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

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2010 03:31:31 pm John Drescher wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> OK, thanks. I didn't know you could use 8xx Opterons in a two-CPU board, I
> thought they were for 4 or 8 CPU boards only, and the 2xx were for the dual-
> CPU setups.
>

I found the 850s can work even in 1 socket boards.


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John M. Drescher