August 25, 20178 yr You probably hit the Intel C2000 (Avoton) issue where they die after around 18 months. 3 year warranty on the board and replacements do not have the same issue. If you don't go that route I'll happily take those 16GB dimms of your hands for you
August 25, 20178 yr Author Thanks for the information Earthworm, and for the offer to take those DIMMs off my hands. I may take you up on that; let me try a few more things first. I had trouble getting the new board to boot up, until I reseated the modular PSU cable on the PSU end. Then good. So this could have been the problem all along. I'll try the old board with a known-good PSU soon. It may turn into the online backup system I had planned for the new board, as I have pretty much all the other parts needed to build that. Parity Check on the new system finished in a little bit less time than the last one before the old board had the problem: Last check completed on Fri 25 Aug 2017 03:20:20 PM PDT (today), finding 0 errors. Duration: 15 hours, 17 minutes, 29 seconds. Average speed: 145.4 MB/sec
August 26, 20178 yr Author I swapped out the 4GB non-ECC DIMM for a 16GB ECC DIMM, and was surprised to see the idle power consumption drop, from 23.0 watts to 22.8 watts.
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