Pinging the mighty masses to the new Folding thread!
BTTT
I’m just psyched to be staying in the top 100 consistently!
Hey, thanks for the ping.
Still trundling along and hanging onto the #71 position by the skin of my teeth.
The office box is chewing on Work Unit #144, right now, and the Home box has it’s 179th in-process.
Still bashing the bugs out of the home PC after my power problem over a month ago. I’ve replaced the power supply, and the CPU, and brought an APC Back-UPS ES on stream to condition the incoming A/C and prevent any future power problems.
With all of that, though, the machine is still freezing, on occasion, wholly without warning. I’ve got a sensor between my CPU heatsink and the back wall of my case that sounds a piercing tone if it gets above 110F (43C). With that installed, I’ve continued to operate the computer, and I note that the “seizures” seem independent of CPU temperature, so the cause is something I haven’t changed, yet.
At this point I’m not sure whether I’d rather replace my ECC RDRAM or my motherboard. Replacing the RAM would not disrupt my XP Pro installation as much, but would cost more. Replacing the motherboard might make the O/S refuse to boot, something I’m not really ready to tackle. XP Pro CAN be “fooled” into “fixing” itself, even if you’ve made hardware changes that affect the HAL, but it’s not 100% and not a risk I want to take.
Know any utilities that can sucessfully test ECC type memory without getting false positive results; that is reporting things are okay, when they’re not?
I'm about 20-30 miles north of Dallas, depending on how you measure it.
Only three machines running right now... sometimes I'll have one or two others available for a week or two and I'll crank them up.
Looks like I'll lose my #16 slot very soon. Thanks to all of the rest of you that have joined in.