On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 10:48:58PM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
A few years ago, when I was too skint to afford a replacement, I managed to keep a machine going with what appeared to be memory problems. I never
ram in a different format. I'm wondering if it's quicker to just go to a new motherboard and ram, or a new machine (or new to you, 2nd hand). You'd probably end up with a newer, faster machine. It depends on how much time and/or money you want to invest in the problem.
Well, that's it. Typically new hardware will be quicker but not necessarily cheaper! I think it's worth a little more diagnostics as it could easily be a PSU problem which means you spent £200 on a new board/cpu/ram and then have to buy a new PSU which was the original problem.
Adam --