Hi Folks
Let me tell you what happened before I start asking questions.
On Wednesday night about 630pm I had the computer booted using linux, i told
it to update which it was doing through the night, in the morning i booted
it into windows xp where it stayed until i got home at about 6:30pm on
thursday where my mandrake 8.2 discs where waiting on me. I updated my
distro , got my [rinter working (woo hoo) and staretd it updating again. At
about 2:30am Friday i told linux to reboot into windows, and it got stuck
shutting down the usb devices.
It hung not doing anything, so i hit the reset switch, wouldn't reset. So i
flicked the power off, and there started my problem, the fecking thing would
not come back on again. I have now built another machine from spare parts,
maybe not the fastest in the world, but functional. My old machine would not
power back up again. Although my original Hard disks still work, but my
floppy seems to on the blink, but that could be because i bent one of the
pins when i wa transferring it
To cut a long story short i just got it working again, by reseting the bios,
2 days after it happened.
Could this have been caued by linux or could it have been caused by
coincedence, since it was up for nearly 30 hours? ( People may remember my
post abou thge noisy fan, so it may have overheated)
Can anyone offer any solutions, unfortunatly to get it working again i have
had to reformat my linux partition, so i have no logs of what happened.
Could it maybe have happened because i updated the distro from 7.2 to 8.1
instead of doing a fresh install? and it somehow affected the usb drivers?
Could it happen again??
Is linux that powerful that it can rewrite the bios settings?
Anyone have any solutions? theories?
I wanted to send this email before i rebuilt my normal computer, (this one i
am using is a p200 with 64mb ram, hellish slow using winxp) and my normal
one is a p3 800 with 312mb ram,
Please excuse the spelling as I am using web based mail for this till i get
email set up properly again, and also i am using a lower res than i normally
use so it may look distorted.
Thanks in Advance
Phil
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