run a tail -f /var/log/messages and look for messages indicating that your cpu or disk is overheating. Most new machines will tell you if they're getting hot... also when you boot there may be a bios panel that shows the temperature of things, and the speed of the fans etc. If its getting hot because dust has settled in the cooling vanes, meybe (before you dismantle it:) spray some compressed air in around the fan (and any other hole you can find) to dislodge the dust. I don't mean a "can of air" I mean the one that runs your nail gun. You have a nail gun don't you? If you do and this behavior continues... then use it to nail the laptop to the floor somewhere it will stop a door :) wcn
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 _______________________________________________ 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
