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jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck) writes:

>In most cases, yes.  But people are doing amazing things these days in the
>PC market, like selling fake SRAM for caches, overdriving processors, etc.

    A few months ago, I spent several frustrating days trying to track
    down a problem on my P90 system that was causing random errors
    including (but not limited to) the infamous Signal 11. The other
    symptoms included sporadic fake "syntax errors" from gcc, reboot
    failures on a "bad crc check" diagnostic etc. Ultimately, the
    problem turned out to be the (new) internal SCSI ribbon cable.

    The SCSI-HOWTO did warn about this but suggested that the NCR
    53c810 controller is less likely to be as sensitive as some of the
    other controllers. Since I had that very controller, I did not
    suspect the cable initially.

    So, at least in my experience, poor hardware continues to be a
    serious problem in the PC arena.

    Ram