I hate old hardware...

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So my wifes shuttle was BSODed when I got up this morning (it stays on for WHS backups over wireless so no WoL for her), anyway after trying a couple of the usual suspects (reseating the ram, trying a repair just incase something broke over night, booting from a Win 7 dvd) I knew I had to take it apart.

Working in the shuttle isn't a bad thing, it's fairly tight but still workable. After changing out the 160gb disk (03 2007), I put the new disk in and tried booting up with the WHS restore CD. No good, so that ruled out a dead HDD.

Next it was a case of trying to run memtest86+, instantly I get a screen full of red errors so out come the dimms and its time to test. First dimm goes back in, screen full of red now rather than try the same dimm in the other slot I decided to see if it was memory controller error, I take the other dimm and put it in the same slot. Boot up comes and I have a clean screen Next I move the dimm to the other slot and try again, same result

Now I have to go through the pain of putting the original hdd back and try and find some cheap ddr400 ram (1gb as she had 2gb onboard).

All in all not a night that I wanted (it was meant to be cinema night for us, Sherlock 'was' calling )
Anyway, she is happy and I can breath easier that my wife and son won't be playing on my gaming rig any time soon.

Moral of the story? Ensure you check everything, I would have sworn it was a hdd issue but thankfully had the Mem86 cd to hand just to check. At least I don't have to rebuild anything

 

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I do at least one of these every day, sometimes 7 days a week.

 

Don't tell me you do it 365 days a year too!