On 09/17/2011 05:03 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote about hardware problems: To try to make a long story short, I opened my desktop machine, fiddled with drive cables, then removed and replaced memory. Upon restarting the machine I got as far as just before the NVRAM check. After a couple of minutes I restarted it and got as far Ubuntu checking drives. I got a message that there were errors. After leaving the machine powered up and in that state for an hour or so while I researched the error message, I came back to it and told it to ignore the error message. I got the same message for each partition in the machine, and ignored them all. Ubuntu came up okay and I was able to get e-mail normally. After powering down so I could move the box back under the desk and powering up I encountered beep codes and a blank screen. I left the machine in that state for 10 or 15 minutes and tried again. Instead of an error message I got to the point where Ubuntu wanted to check all the drives. It had done that just the other day so I told it not to check. Ubuntu continued to load and has been running okay since then -- late this afternoon.
My conclusion, after remembering I had this problem back when I first upgraded from 512 MB to 1GB of RAM, is that the motherboard probably has a hairline crack that seals itself when it warms up. My current plan is to leave it running until I replace it with a better machine from the fine offerings at the Free Geek Thrift Store. I was pleased to see how much machine could be had for so little money. So, I won't be bringing it to the clinic, tomorrow. Turns out I have to help can peaches, anyway. Should be a nice, cool day for it. We usually have to do it when it's hot out. But canned O'Henry peaches are worth the trouble. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
