On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 02:29, Paul wrote: > Hello all, > > Forgive this OT post, but can someone point me into the right direction? > My PC is going nuts. When it is upright, it won't boot properly (powers off > immediately after switching it on). When it lies on the side, the system > keeps running without a problem when switched on. > Already had the entire internals apart and back together again, to no avail. > What can be wrong here??? I tried all I can think of. > > Thanks. > Paul
Could be that you have a side-winding hard drive. Actually, could be on the way out. If you have the drive sitting in any other position than the one that works, and it chokes and pukes, there is a problem with the heads in the drive. Try a different hard drive - you might find that no matter what position you put your case, it will work (with a different drive). Cheese! (sorry, Cheers!) -- Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:30:00 +1100 7:30am up 8 days, 17:13, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.17 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs. -- H.L. Mencken
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