-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In my experience, these issues are RAM related 9 times out 10. memtest is always a good first step when troubleshooting. It is on the Ubuntu install CD btw.
John E Jardine wrote: | 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] <mailto:[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 | | ------------------------- | | _______________________________________________ | 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzxT6wRXgH3rKGfMRAulhAJ0aFf4PF3Ivceows4AUrNdzIhs8NwCfbK9g dxMdMrcMDVQ26J1+OizaaMA= =Hog1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
