SATA II causes system freeze

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 19, 2014, at 3:08 PM, David A. De Graaf <dad at datix.us> wrote:

>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:18 AM, David A. De Graaf <dad at datix.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> When the system freezes, if X is lit (not screen-saved) the LCD
>>>> monitor looks as if it had been hit a sharp blow on the right edge so
>>>> that all the pixels have been shaken loose.
>>> 
>>> Sounds like a bad motherboard. It's managing to corrupt memory in such a way that you're getting video artifacts.
>>> 
> Chris, I agree.  Which is why the first thing I tried was to buy a
> new different motherboard (to replace the almost new motherboard).
> The two mobo's have onboard video that appears to be different, yet the
> display during freeze is indistinguishable.

OK but when you say different motherboard, how different? Same make and model? It could still be from the same batch; either the logic board itself, or the components. 


Chris Murphy