Fred Holmes wrote:
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.
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Changing that fan would be a cheap, easy fix!
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