You might also want to run memtest - if things have jiggled loose that'll tell you. If that says no problem, then you might have something more serious:(
I second the cleaning suggestion - depending on the environment that could be an issue. On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:52 -0700, 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
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