When a previously working system starts acting up, I always look for anything hindering the cooling. I took a heat sink to a buddies machine shop and its incredible how much dust came off it. Before I did that it would not compile anything over 1000 lines. After that, no problem.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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 _______________________________________________ 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
