[Gllug] Good up-to-date distro for mini-ITX?

[Julian Somers]

On 13:18 Fri 23 Jun     , Rich Walker wrote:
> Julian Somers <lists at bigpip.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > I do have "CPU Frequency scaling" disabled in the kernel. I
> > wasn't aware this was a bad thing (apart from the waste of power). Is
> > this the power saving feature that might cause problems? 
> 
> Wouldn't think so, bit strange.
> 
> 
> >
> > Is there anything else, in general, that can damage RAM? I am becoming
> > more worried that it's finger-trouble causing this hardware failure,
> > because:
> >
> > - We have five times the number of EPIA-Ms as EPIA-PDs. 
> > - 90% of the EPIA-PDs have had RAM replaced. 0% of the EPIA-Ms have had
> >   RAM replaced. 
> 
> That suggests incompatibility between the PD and the memory?

For the record, and in case any of you have been having sleepless nights
over my RAM woes, this was indeed the problem: don't use RAM faster than
PC2100 with the EPIA-PD.

Julian

> 
> cheers, Rich.
> 
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