Re: [UM-LINUX] freaky laptop

[John Demme]

It almost certainly comes down to the Knoppix test: if Knoppix runs fine without mounting the hard drive, it's the hd (obviously).  On two seperate occasions, I've had issues similar to these where the cause was the hard drive in the machine.  Note that it knoppix freezes as well, all it means is that mounting the hard drive probably isn't the problem.  If this wasn't a notebook, I'd suggest disconnecting the HD altogether from the machine and trying knoppix.

~John

On 10/17/05, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:12:37PM -0400, Aloomis wrote:
>
> Any idea what's going on here?  It almost has to be hardware failure,
> but I can't begin to figure out what.  It's a work laptop, so it's not
> really my problem to fix, but I want to know what's going on.  (And
> whether I can find a way to freshen up my backup before delivering the
> laptop to someone who may wipe the drive.)

I would blame the cpu or other onboard chip, which is not necessarily
caught by the memtest.  A semi-burnt cpu has all sorts of weirdness to
it that would exmplain your symptoms.  What I would do is try to find
your laptop on ebay sold for parts (with a bad screen for example),
buy it and replace the parts one by one.


- Rob
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