On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:42:26PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote:
Interesting -- that's pretty much exactly the symptoms I had: if it actually made it past the POST, it booted and ran with no problems, but it only did that about one in twelve attempts.
Makes me wonder if the south bridge or some of the circuitry connected to it is going bad. I should probably put the 32GB into the 4 empty sockets on my machine (same motherboard, just the 3960X instead of 3920). Then I would have 64GB.
I expect to have some high-end components that I can't use in the near future...
At the moment I'm looking at the AMD Ryzen 3800X 3.9GHz eight-core / sixteen-thread CPU, the Asus Prime X570-Pro AM4 ATX motherboard, and the Corsair LPX Vengeance 4x16G = 64G total. With any luck I can just migrate my audio card (Asus Xonar STX Essence), bluray drive, power supply, and perhaps even my CoolerMaster case. I haven't decided whether to use the old video card or try for one that will drive UHD 4K resolution -- the latter requiring a new monitor, too. Might be better just to start with the new equipment and see how easy or hard it is to get Arch up and running, then decide about the video.
Well you can always upgrade the video card later if needed. Audio card should not be a problem to move over as should the bluray drive. Any recent power supply should have ATX 24 pin power and 8 pin 12V power which should do just fine. And the case should be fine too, given both would be standard ATX boards. The only component I had trouble getting was the motherboard. Canada computers was out, so I ordered from newegg.ca, and then they canceled the order given they apparently had the inventory count wrong, so I ordered from isanek.com and next day got a message that the box had got crushed in the warehouse so they weren't shipping it, so then I made another order from newegg.ca who had apparently got more in stock, and they finally shipped it a couple of days later, after which it took 10 days to ship from california. Sheesh. -- Len Sorensen