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

[Ryland, Peter]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 12:25 +0100, Julian Somers wrote:
> On 17:19 Thu 22 Jun     , Rich Walker wrote:
> > Julian Somers <lists at bigpip.com> writes:
> > 
> > >
> > > I have just remembered that we have had RAM failure in almost every one
> > > of our EPIA PD series machines.
> > >
> > > I assumed that it was a bad batch of RAM, or sloppy assembly.

Electro-static discharge is responsible for almost all hardware
failures.  Just a careless touch with an ungrounded finger can send a
mini lightning bolt that can irreversibly damage the silicon tracks,
causing partial fractures.  The thing is that the damage may not
manifest itself until a few months later, when the track eventually
completely gets cut off by the fracture (the fracture causes emf and
heat effects that cause the fracture to grow).

Here's a picture of some ESD damage:

http://www.chipworks.com/resources/downloads/esd01_1280.jpg

Pete


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