Try putting your cdrom on another ide cable. Primary Master = Hard Disk Secondary Master = CDROM Drive
If this won't fix the error, replace the memory chips. Then the MoBo. :) Lanz On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 18:21, allan espinosa wrote: > hi, > my computer has been acting weird lately (almost a week). i tried > to re-install slack 9.0 from cd but some of its packages have been > corrupted. so i tried installing from a network by mounting my slack > cd on another pc and share it via nfs. the installation went find. so > i thought it was the cd rom drive. i swapped the cd rom drives to see > if it is the problem but it is not the cd drive. i also checked the > hardrive for badblocks by the 'e2fsck -c' command and also a surface > scan from dos' scandisk. there was no problem found. > > when i tried to tar -zt < slack-pack.tgz on my computer it returns > a crc error but when i tried reading it from another computer there are > no errors. sometimes packages a goes corrupted upon installation but > another instance its package b. > my guess is the there is something wrong on the medium that my > computer transfers data from cd to hardisk or from hdax to hday. i > think its the ide ribbon cables. how can I further diagnose my > problem? its relatively a new computer (6 months old) but its acting > like our 8 yr old p 133 with unpredictable errors. i even get seg > faults when unmounting devices. > > -allan espinosa > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
