alancabler OK? [yes]

[alancabler]

I've hit the vicious cycle point with the heat from the 20+ cores @ home, the Air Conditioner is killing me. and it's getting hard to explain why these "old" PC's keep moving to the office

Being in SoCal, you probably don't try too hard to keep your toes warm, eh?

If you want any/all of it PM me an address, I'll send em your way...

Thanks for your kind offer!

Welcome Back! I may even consider retracting the "rotten old fossil" label!

Uh... pardon me, but is that really your picture?
No one's seen me, so am I at liberty to ask "look who's talkin' ?"
On the brighter side, look at 7im.

[Lgringo]

Welcome Back! I may even consider retracting the "rotten old fossil" label!

Uh... pardon me, but is that really your picture?
No one's seen me, so am I at liberty to ask "look who's talkin' ?"
On the brighter side, look at 7im.

No, I'm not that good-looking yet. Maybe by 2025 (if man is still alive, if woman can survive) ... according to a web (& Albuquerque newspaper) article, he's Ed Fredrickson at NMSU:
http://www.nmsu.edu/~ucomm/Releases/200 ... cattle.htm
http://ucommphoto.nmsu.edu/newsphoto/EdWithCow33.jpg
Don't know if he would approve of being my "alias" on this forum, but he's very likely OK with it (my trusty male intuition). At least it now allows a few more people to learn about his research on "Criollo critters".

[toTOW]

Very strange failure- must have overheated some small CPU circuit because the machine starts to boot, then dies- works w/a lesser CPU, so mobo, etc. apparently OK.

Did you check your PSU ? And CPU VRM ?

[alancabler]

Very strange failure- must have overheated some small CPU circuit because the machine starts to boot, then dies- works w/a lesser CPU, so mobo, etc. apparently OK.

Did you check your PSU ? And CPU VRM ?

Sorry for this "late" answer toTOW, I'd forgotten about this, and only recently discovered why I lost that CPU. The mobo, PS and all other components were ok- just lost CPU (immediately replaced with another one laying around).

I'd moved some rigs around a few days before the ice storm, and inadvertently plugged the dead machine into an unprotected AC line jack on the UPS instead of a protected/UPS jack. With all the surges and spikes,
the freaky- flukeys whacked my CPU.