[OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
For the last several days, I've been experiencing strange lock-ups and crashes, which I suspect may be due to hardware failure, although I'm not sure how to diagnose this further. I don't think that it's an OS issue, since the problem sometimes occurs at POST, or at least before the bootloader

Re: [OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Kevin Ross
On 9/7/2010 5:20 PM, Celejar wrote: For the last several days, I've been experiencing strange lock-ups and crashes, which I suspect may be due to hardware failure, although I'm not sure how to diagnose this further. I don't think that it's an OS issue, since the problem sometimes occurs at

Re: [OT] Hardware failure?

2010-09-07 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:43:11 -0700 Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net wrote: ... Hmm, I just noticed it's a laptop, so replacing the cable is not an option (there's no cable to replace). I had an old laptop where I have to wedge something underneath the hard drive to get it to make good

[OT] hardware failure

2003-02-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
My computer has been on a downward spiral for a while now[1], but i've been too busy to deal with it. Now it won't even go into single-user mode. It just hangs at the boot prompt. Says, Loading linux and then prints anywhere from one to ten .'s before hanging. It's not the hard drive -- I

Re: [OT] hardware failure

2003-02-16 Thread sean finney
hey nori, On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: My computer has been on a downward spiral for a while now[1], but i've been too busy to deal with it. Now it won't even go into single-user mode. It just hangs at the boot prompt. Says, Loading linux and then

Re: [OT] hardware failure

2003-02-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:28:18PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: My computer has been on a downward spiral for a while now[1], but i've been too busy to deal with it. Now it won't even go into single-user mode. It just hangs at