[Novalug] I am _so_ not a hardware guy...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Also, just FYI, I've had a USB header prevent a system from posting.
Yes, a USB device!  Totally unexpected.

From my old blog:  "Note-to-Self:  Check Every Part for Failure"  
http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/12/note-to-self-check-every-part-for.html  

PCs are a real PITA, especially when it comes to the POST and getting
different components working together -- or even on the same board
(seen enough design defects over the years).  It's the price you pay for
commodity openness, things are _never_ to exact spec and atypical cases
can result in total failures (like a failed USB device holding up the POST
indefinitely).

_Never_ assuming anything with the PC.  It's a cure as much as a blessing.

________________________________
From: Cliff Palmer <cliff at palmercs.com>
To: novalug at calypso.tux.org
Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 6:25:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] I am _so_ not a hardware guy...

  
>
>Thanks to everyone who replied – the problem, while still
>baffling, is solved.
>My Gigabyte MB has 6 DDR3 memory slots, but as the speed of the
>memory increases the number of slots that actually work decreases.  No, I’m
>not smoking anything – check it out: 
> 
>http://www.gigabyte.us/FileList/MemorySupport/motherboard_memory_ga-ex58-ud5.pdf
> 
>As the speed of the memory increases the number of chips
>(regardless of capacity) is reduced.
> 
>You just can’t make this stuff up….
> 
>Cliff