Hmmm.

[mdlbear]

I don't think it's a coincidence that my fileserver stayed up happily all week, and has frozen twice since I got my workstation back on line. Not at all. I'm guessing something odd in either the memory or the networking.

Fry's has an AMD CPU/MB combo for under $80 this weekend. It'll eat more power, but it'll be worth it for both reliability and print speed.

13:09 Hmmm indeed. Let's see: problems with SATA, problems when the fast workstation with GigE is online, wimpy 1GHz C7 CPU... I/O bandwidth. In many ways I'm relieved to know that it's simply not fixable without replacing the MB. I can do that.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

That Charlie-7 CPU, can it be cooled passively?

[mdlbear]

It is, in fact, cooled passively -- totally fanless. I originally got it for recording, but it turned out to be too wimpy for overdubbing, probably because the Via CPUs have wretched floating point performance. I'll probably recycle it into the public Linux box, which is an 800MHz C3 whose fan is currently dying noisily.

Fry's run tomorrow.