From: Ian Westmacott <ianw@intellivid.com>
To: Brennan Stewart <brennan@ideahamster.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: database corruption
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:20:00 -0400
Message-ID: <000101c543b4$bd7eb860$76d81e42@hsd1.ma.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425691EC.1050709@ideahamster.org>
> In your previous emails, you stated that these errors were seen on
> multiple systems. Multiple systems, configured identically, with
> diverse motherboards/hardware or always identical hardware except for
> the sata/IDE drives?
>
> I ask, because I noted that you are using the Neo 2 ATX motherboard that
> has the "dynamic overclocking" feature. This can cause grave
> instability in systems when it set to an aggressive setting. This
> motherboard is not compatible with low quality ram either. This
> motherboard also is prone to heat problems, and requires extra cooling.
> If you have multiple systems failing, using this motherboard, then that
> particular model could be the culprit.
We have seen this using at least one other motherboard besides the Neo 2
ATX. And (fortunately or unfortunately) we don't use the dynamic
overclocking feature. Do you know how the RAM incompatibility is
manifest?
Thanks,
--Ian
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