Recent content by pnemeth

After a week at the service I still don't know more. The motherboard did the same short circuit like thing at the northbridge again. The guy at the store refused to do any further diagnostics claiming that this motherboard may damage his tools. The motherboard needs to be replaced for sure, but...

It was completely off. Next week I will take it to a computer service to make a complete diagnostics.

I used a low profile cheap video card when i set up the system. After it was working I disabled and removed it, and used remote access. Its not a problem to put it back, but likely it will not get me closer to understand the problem. The flash tells something, but I don't want to risk too much...

Hi, I need some expert advice. My computer appears dead. For pressing the power switch there is a short flashing of the LEDs and a quarter turn of the fans and then it stops completely. No beep. The computer is custom built to calculate numerical models, so it doesn't have a video card, dvd...

Hi, I am planning to get several computer nodes for science. These will be built from parts. The task is stellar model atmosphere calculations, that is, lots of matrix inversions. The executable code (fortran 77) is about 1.2 - 1.6 Mb, compiled with gcc 4.7, and the input data for the models is...