Go to jtower's hardware sale tomorrow (Saturday) and get another HD. Your wife will appreciate a working computer in the meantime.
-CMP On 8/26/05, Jason Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a hosed hdd can interfere with other ide devices, i've seen this kind of > behavior before. make sure they're not on the same channel, and be sure > to try different jumper settings. if that fails try using a pci ide > controller for the hdd. if that doesn't work you're probably sol. > > jason > > Owen Berry wrote: > > This morning my wife's computer crashed, the hard drive started making > > clicking noises, and, when rebooted would get past the BIOS startup and > > then stop with a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the > > screen. The only good sign is that the BIOS detects the hard drive. > > > > Seems pretty bad. My first thought was to try to recover whatever > > possible using Knoppix. Tried booting off the CD, but all I got was the > > flashing cursor. Went into the BIOS and double checked that the CD drive > > came before the hard drive in terms of startup devices - it was. To be > > sure, I changed all 3 options to be the CD drive. Still the same result. > > > > I tried unplugging the hard drive and then booting off Knoppix, and > > everything worked fine. Any ideas what I could be missing here? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- Owen > > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Cristobal M. Palmer UNC-CH SILS Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer <http://ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer> "Television-free since 2003" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
