On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:29:13PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0200, Roland Smith said:
>
> R> At $WORK the Dell computers (both desktops and servers AFAIK) that we
> R> use are ditched at the first problem after the warranty runs out which
> R> is after three years
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0200, Roland Smith said:
R> At $WORK the Dell computers (both desktops and servers AFAIK) that we
R> use are ditched at the first problem after the warranty runs out which
R> is after three years, I believe.
Interesting. I've used a Dell GX260 for my workstati
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Identry wrote:
> >> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
> >
> > Sadly, I agree.
> > I'd get to the point of swapping hardware one at a time until it
> > fixes, or until you exhaust your options. Have any kind of support
> > contract with the OEM?
>
>
> I'd get to the point of swapping hardware one at a time until it
> fixes, or until you exhaust your options. Have any kind of support
> contract with the OEM?
I do have a support contract and I'm going to dump this right in their
lap. Two machines we bought from them -- pretty expensive ones --
>> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
>
> Sadly, I agree.
>
> Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard)
> Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your "boot drive"
>
> But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue is malfunctioning.
>
> Do you have a PCI Diagnostics card? One lik
Tim Judd wrote:
> On 8/7/09, Roland Smith wrote:
>
>> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
>
>
>
> Sadly, I agree.
>
>
> Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard)
> Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your "boot drive"
>
> But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue i
On 8/7/09, Roland Smith wrote:
> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
Sadly, I agree.
Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard)
Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your "boot drive"
But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue is malfunctioning.
Do you have a PCI Diagn
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Identry wrote:
> > Realize that if you upgrade to 7.x, you'll have to remove and reinstall
> > all ports because the version number of shared system libraries will
> > have changed.
>
> Yes, I've decided this is way too complicated.
>
> >> Or would it be
> Realize that if you upgrade to 7.x, you'll have to remove and reinstall
> all ports because the version number of shared system libraries will
> have changed.
Yes, I've decided this is way too complicated.
>> Or would it be safer to try to bring up the machine on it's own with a
>> 6.2 generic
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:08:44AM -0400, Identry wrote:
> > if not have you tried it?
>
> No. I need to figure out how to do that, and I didn't have enough
> brain power last night after doing all those backups.
>
> After sleeping on it, I am wondering if I can kill two birds with one
> stone...
> I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
> twice),
I was afraid to run fsck before backing up everything I might possibly
need, so I spent most of last night mounting all the partitions and
backing up things.
I was able to manually mount all the partitions and all the d
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