On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The precursor may or may not be related.
>
> I discovered that my wife's gmail had been accessed by an iphone on Nov,
> 1. We have no iphone, and were home alone at the time listed. So I
> changed the pass word. Then tried to open firefox. Would not load.
> Nothing would work, except the mouse pointer would move around. Had to use
> the power button to restart. Now I get error: attempt to read or write
> outside of disk 'hd0'. Entering rescue mode. grub rescue>
>
> Yesterday the computer froze in a similar fashion when my wife was looking
> at email in evolution. A power switch intervention was required, but it
> booted fine at that time.
>
> So the two incidents point to hardware problems or intrusion?
>
> I have googled for grub rescue recovery, but what I found was aimed at
> people with more understanding than I have.
>
> Are there suggestions that someone here can offer?
>
> thanks,
> -Denis
>
sounds like overheating. When was the last time you cleared out the dust
and checked CPU fan? The thermal compound btween heat sink and CPU. will
get brittle over time as well.
-Ed
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