or, if it's a new computer, you might as well get it back to where you bought it and try a new one. that is, if it's covered by a warranty.
:) On 30 Jun 2003, Allan Cacdac wrote: > 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 > -- 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
