[ale] Final Note - Upgrade Has Caused A Downgrade

[Jim Kinney]

Ah! Your machine was flat out overheating and locking up. Glad it's
getting fixed. I have seen a 4-pin board with bios settings that would
disable the variable speed control but that should leave the fan
running 100%.

2009/1/27 Gene Poole <gene.poole at macys.com>:
>
> My original message:
> I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations.  I've a custom
> built machine that WAS running the following:
>       ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board
>       AMD 64 X2 5600+
>       4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
>       nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card
>       2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB Seagate
>       550 watt Antec power supply
>       Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches
>
> As my Xmas present I upgraded the machine to:
>       Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board
>       AMD Phenom Quad core 9550
>       8GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
>       Retained the video card from above
>       2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 - 1TB Seagate
>       850 watt Antec power supply
>
> I attempted to install, from the same DVD used on the original machine,
> Fedora 9 x86_64 with 4 failures at just about the same place while
> installing packages.  I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and all went well during
> the install so attempted to do a upgrade to x86_64 without luck.  I did a
> test using my Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and it installed perfectly.  I then
> attempted to do a upgrade to Fedora 9 without any luck (it appeared to fail
> at about the same place).  I then downloaded and burned another copy of the
> Fedora 9 x86_64 DVD, checked it and attempted to do another install and one
> again it failed at about the same place.
>
> What could possibly be happening?  I since reinstalled Fedora 8, but that
> has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to Fedora 10 x86_64?
>  Should I have entered something in the boot parameters concerning the
> additional memory?
>
> Any help or advice would be great!
>
>
> Here's what we found and how it was found:
>
> Even after the installation of Fedora 10, this machine continued to have
> issues until it got to the point where it would only boot after being
> powered off for several hours. Because the entire machine had been purchased
> (over a period of 6-months) from the same store (this is not a plug about
> buying everything from the same place), I packed up the computer and went to
> the store's service department and we performed the following:
> The motherboard and all of the expansion cards were removed from the case.
> The hard drives and power supply were left in the case.
> The CPU and cooler were removed from the Gigabyte motherboard and the
> store's CPU and cooler were placed on my motherboard - all worked well.
> My CPU and the store's CPU cooler were placed on my motherboard - all worked
> well.
> At my request the store's CPU cooler was replaced with my Zalman CPU cooler
> - nothing worked!
> It was determined that there was in fact a motherboard issue.  The store's
> tech came to this conclusion because the store's CPU cooler has a 3-prong
> plug, but the Zalman has a 4-prong plug.  The motherboard was given a RTV
> and was replaced by a MSI that was the most compatible (they had no more
> Gigabyte boards in stock at that price point).
>
> Everything is now working as intended!
>
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole
>
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James P. Kinney III