Hi Hugh,
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:00, Hugh Gundersen inscribed thus:
> Hi Folks
>
> Computers (2 of them) kept stalling and rebooting for no apparent
> reason.
>
> Thinking VIRUS or rather VIRUII I re installed recent backups on
> both and the INTEL machine was Ok except that before the backup
> install the C drive or rather Hdd 0 wasn't being found by Acronis,
> XP install or even MAXTOR MAXBLAST.
>
> Thinking the worst I disconnected it from the network and tried
> every trick in the book but ended up having to rebuild the
> partitions losing about 40Gb of downloaded DATA (Boo Hoo)
>
> Reinstalled the backup on the new primary partition it was/is now
> running - REMEMBER FOLKS
>
> Stuff your My Docs on another Hdd - all I had to do was to install
> Agent again (beta testers know what version)
>
> Now for machine 2 my FTP server and primary Print server and DATA
> store.
>
> Again ALL the data is on 3 other Hdd's so no problem there.
> However the dammed thing kept rebooting after the "windows is
> starting" screen.
>
> thinking a complete reinstall is due (boo hoo) as the backups
> appeared corrupted (all 3 of them) I decided it was too much of a
> coincidence!
>
> XP install came up with the blue screen of death warning of
> hard/software fault etc.
>
> Disconnected all drives and tried to rescue the OS with XPPE but
> couldn't find it (C drive that is). XPPE crashed twice before I
> disconnected the other Hdd's as XP install did. Acronis Linux ran
> and installed the backups Ok but it still wouldn't boot.
>
> Eventually I removed the RAM and robbed the INTEL machine of 256Mb
> - It booted.
>
> New sticks of 512 PC3200 400Mhz Ram solved the problem and all up
> and running but due to sorting the funeral out and having to use
> Pearl's computer without my mailing list and Agent - it's been a
> strain ------------------?
>
> What happened to the telephone , paper address books and postage
> stamps?
>
> The carrier pigeon was good too!
>
> This is the FIRST piece of RAM in 22 years that I have has fail -
>
>
>
> Sir Hugh of Bognor
How many times on this list has it been said "Get a copy of memtest,
memtest.org !!
Best regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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