On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:43 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Sean Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Citek wrote: > >> Most machines boot Knoppix 5.1.1 just fine. A few don't. > > > > Have you tried any other live CDs: Ubuntu, Freesbie, Plan 9? > > > > http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > http://www.freesbie.org/ > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ > > Tried UBCD. Similar problem depending on the utility I run. I'm > suspecting hardware. From reading this page, it could be a bad cap: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague > > It even mentions one of the symptoms: Spontaneous reboots
http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=31 If you carefully examine the mainboards of the dodgy machines, can you see any of the mentioned symptoms? (bulging caps, angled/not 90 degree to mainboard caps, leaking caps, etc) I'd say "hardware", simply based on the number of machines I've rebuilt or attempted to rebuild at ByteWorks ... although, there was one instance where the machine would start to boot, then get slower and slower and slower .... and 20 minutes later, had not frozen but also had not finished booting. That one issue had to do with a CMOS battery that was failing, but not quite completely failed. Replaced battery, and whoosh! .... but in many more instances, it was bad hardware. Good luck!! -- and please do let us know what you find out. Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
