Michael, > Does this sound like it could be the hard drive that failed? I > thought those commonly gave some warnings, like wonky behavior in > advance of complete failure, but perhaps that's only true when some > sectors of the drive are wearing out. Everything had been working > fine, then kabluey. I have a spare hard drive, but I'm not sure how > to go about replacing the existing drive. Do I have to reinstall the > BIOS? (I have an ASUS disc I've never even taken out of its package.)
Those messages are confusing, but I'm going to take a guess that it's a drive failure. Note the BIOS message was in relation to a Serial ATA RAID BIOS. Maybe when the drive stopped responding, the system BIOS went into a different mode and tried to identify if you have RAID arrays. The clicking noises are certainly consistent with a drive failure. I would just try putting in a fresh drive and see if you can get a base OS install on it. If run into hardware problems with that, then you can start narrowing it down to other pieces of hardware. Good luck, tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
