uug-ers Got an interesting one here - My parents machine has recently given them fits - even more so than one would expect for a windows machine. It eventually completely refused to boot. I was pretty sure it was a bad hard drive, do to the inability to re-format and re-install to that drive (and the fact that it was an IBM drive with known failure issues).
However, a brand new maxtor drive has failed to solve anything - the machine is back to failing to boot after only one day (is this a windows failure record?) Does anyone have some suggestions for diagnostic tools to check out the hard drive, ram, power supply, motherboard, and/or anything else you can think of to test? I'd really like to figure out why this machine is failing, and I figure there has to be some open source / linux based tools that will do the job. Thanks! --Brent __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
