Just a heads up to other iGoLogic owners, I have noticed that the batch of machines I purchased a few years ago are starting to fail. I have gone through 5 motherboards (and the last 2 I own are now dead). All the failures point to a possible motherboard/cpu issue.
The machine will start to boot, freeze up during post, and then freeze, other times, it will boot, begin to load linux and then freeze (and by freeze, I mean the machine will stay on, but the monitor will lose signal). I am able to revive them after several reboots, but only to have them die again a day later.
I only know of one other board working, and it's a node that is not left on 24x7 (it runs for about 4 hours per day).
Anyways, just a heads up for other owners, beware of possible failures.
Thats incredible!! You are VERY lucky. I can’t believe it took you that long to see this problem.
Most of the rest of us had this happen to us a couple of years ago. You must have had ones
that were made on wednesday by a verry happy person or something.
Just a heads up to other iGoLogic owners, I have noticed that the batch of machines I purchased a few years ago are starting to fail. I have gone through 5 motherboards (and the last 2 I own are now dead). All the failures point to a possible motherboard/cpu issue.
The machine will start to boot, freeze up during post, and then freeze, other times, it will boot, begin to load linux and then freeze (and by freeze, I mean the machine will stay on, but the monitor will lose signal). I am able to revive them after several reboots, but only to have them die again a day later.
I only know of one other board working, and it’s a node that is not left on 24x7 (it runs for about 4 hours per day).
Anyways, just a heads up for other owners, beware of possible failures.
That sounds very much like the classic "chronically overheated southbridge
eventually fails" syndrome; which is also common with laptops.
Several years ago I started gluing small but beefy heatsinks on
anything I deemed too hot and have had NO failures since that point!
.... Keeping fingers crossed! ....
Happy Holidays!
73, David kb4fxc
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Jim Nessen wrote:
Greetings,
Just a heads up to other iGoLogic owners, I have noticed that the batch of machines I purchased a few years ago are starting to fail. I have gone through 5 motherboards (and the last 2 I own are now dead). All the failures point to a possible motherboard/cpu issue.
The machine will start to boot, freeze up during post, and then freeze, other times, it will boot, begin to load linux and then freeze (and by freeze, I mean the machine will stay on, but the monitor will lose signal). I am able to revive them after several reboots, but only to have them die again a day later.
I only know of one other board working, and it's a node that is not left on 24x7 (it runs for about 4 hours per day).
Anyways, just a heads up for other owners, beware of possible failures.
