[lug] SD write timeouts, drive appears to be fine

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:23:50 -0700 (MST)
D. Stimits wrote:

> > It's like Groundhog Day. Got replacement RAM from Crucial, and all was
> > fine for a while. Now the same errors are back. I'm going to conclude
> > that something in the motherboard is bad, to the point of damaging the
> > RAM. Fortunately, mobos aren't expensive these days.
> 
> Just yesterday I ran into a case of the thermal compound on a CPU being
> so dry it was burning the fan. The RAM sits next to it. If the RAM is
> damaged, and the CPU has been on for several years, then you might find
> it is a case of new thermal compound on the CPU to reduce temperature
> of the RAM...heat guilt by proximity.

It hasn't been that long since I put that MB in.

However, the thermal compound will get refreshed when I install the new
MB, and chuck the Gigabyte in the rubbish.