On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:56 -0500, Jerry W. Hubbard wrote:
[...]
> >>> There is another machine I labeled "needs work!" and put on a
> >>> triage/repair workstation, which may be better to part out than to
> >>> burn up time testing it. Depends on who feels like a challenge.
> >>>
> >> What symptoms does it exhibit?
> >>
> >
> > Sorry I don't remember all the details (that was toward the very end of
> > a very long day -- 10am to 6:15pm without a lunch break!). Among other
> > things, it was taking more than 5 minutes to boot up. Either the power
> > supply or the cooling fan sounded asthmatic. And there was something
> > odd about the BIOS, too. Maybe Jerry Hubbard remembers more -- he
> > showed up late in the afternoon, and helped me finish up the last few
> > machines.
> >
> >
>
>
> Theresa , was this the one that BIOS reported a bus speed of 33 MHz, and
> was taking a long time to boot into grub?
That's the one. I know it was *very* slow, but I seem to recall some
other flakiness to go with it?
t.
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