On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 17:07, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > Hi All, > > Hope someone can shed some inisght onto this one for me. > > Fiance and I were trying to install Mandrake 9.0 on a HD. The old one > that I tried using at the InstallFest seemed to be crapping out when > it came to creating/formatting the partitions. Thinking it could be > the drive (around 4 GB so pretty old) and maybe developing bad > sectors, Chris Wallace gracious gave me a newer drive (6.4 GB) to > try. Tried again with Mandrake 9.0...nothing...tried erasing hard > disk and going with an auto allocate. Again nothing...same type of > error. Error formatting hda1. > > So...decision was made to go back to windows, thinking it could be a > problem with the install routine. Pulled out pqmagic to destroy old > partitions and tried to do that. Seems that it is giving me error 701 > in pqmagic. So...tried one last thing. FDISK...tried creating > partitions there and when it was trying to test system integrity, it > kept starting and stopping. > > Am I correct in assuming that it could be down to a faulty IDE > controller on the mobo? Or am I missing something here? System is an > old 200 Mhz with 96 MB of RAM, so maybe mobo is starting to flake > out. It seems odd that 2 drives from different manufacturers would > both have bad sectors and both crap out in the same place. > It probably is the controller. Now you could add another controller and disable onboard, you may be able to use the system for awhile. Otherwise you'll need a new motherboard.
Just to be sure you should run a memory check. Memory errors cause lots of problems... -- Mark Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
