If the intermittent boot problem is happening after usage, try a really good cleaning. This sounds similar to what a friend had happen to them and a good cleaning appeared to have resolved it.
HTH Neil B. On Wednesday 05 March 2008 13:52, Greg King wrote: > Hi list, > > > > My laptop has been acting up lately - intermittently refusing to boot, so I > replaced the hard drive and spent most of a day rebuilding it only to end up > in the same situation. Kubuntu hung during install. Windows installed and > seemed to work for a while until BSOD and now won't boot either. > Diagnostics for the new and old HDD seem to work fine, so I'm thinking there > is something in the controller or motherboard that intermittently fails. > Is something like that worth fixing (ie <$100), or is the laptop now a > paperweight? Could there be another cause of intermittent disk corruption? > > > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
