Hi all
As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD died.
Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems ranging from
install failing to complete with another HDD error to the BIOS not detecting
the drive at all.
I have literally just tried a new SATA data
I've had at least three early SATA cables which developed a fault; they
seemed to be wobbly in their 'sockets' and showed the symptoms you
describe.
More recent SATA cables have been OK here so far.
IMHO surge protectors are essential for anything with chips or
transistors: cheap peace of
On 06/02/2012 18:09, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD
died. Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems
ranging from install failing to complete with another HDD error to the
BIOS not detecting the drive at all.
I
I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the cheap
end.
Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are
normally pretty obvious.
Loose cables are a common enough problem.
Anton
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Anton Piatek
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On 06/02/12 20:13, Anton Piatek wrote:
I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the
cheap end.
Ooh, you don't want to make statements like that Anton - you're just
begging for a multiple PSU failure event by putting that in writing! :-)
Seriously though, I have had
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 20:13 +, Anton Piatek wrote:
I have never had a PSU fail, but mine are all branded and not on the
cheap end.
Probably for the best, in general.
Disks die often, motherboards occasionally but mostly fatally and are
normally pretty obvious.
And the price of disks is
I have never had a PSU fail
Oh, I have.
but mine are all branded and not on the cheap end.
I see more cheapie PSUs than branded ones. I see failed examples of both.
I don't think I've got nearly enough data to form an opinion of whether or
not the branded ones are more reliable.
Disks die
On 06/02/12 19:10, Isaac Close wrote:
On 06/02/2012 18:09, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
As you may remember from my post last week, my Ubuntu machine's HD
died. Despite a brand new HDD I'm having intermittent problems
ranging from install failing to complete with another HDD error to the
