Any chance that flashing pattern is a code that the boot drive has exceeded S.M.A.R.T. tolerances? I have my POST screens turned on and I got a S.M.A.R.T warning about my hard drive, which is why I ran Spinrite. I first read the details of the S.M.A.R.T. warning, which were "too many read errors," and figured that Spinrite might fix that, which it did. My box has a noisy fan at times, sometimes very loud. I suspect it creates enough vibration that it actually makes writes on the drive "wobbly." So, now, I just stick in a floppy when the fan is noisy, and wait for the fan to quiet down before I boot from the hard drive.
Spinrite is available from http://www.grc.com/intro.htm . Has saved my bacon on many occasions. Fred Holmes At 09:07 AM 8/21/2009, Chris Dunford wrote: >Yeah, it's not that kind of flashy light. It's the "power on" light in the >center of the power button. It starts out flashing on and off slowly, then >ramps up so that it's flashing faster and faster >until it finally boots. There's no sequence that you could interpret as a code. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
