11 Jun
2005
11 Jun
'05
5:08 p.m.
Hi Dave. I presume you checked whether the cmos battery was ok. It could be
worthwhile taking the battery out for an hour or so, to reset the cmos if you
know the batteries ok. Also, have you tried each drive individually on the
machine? Like , the one with RH9 on it might be ok, but the one with FC3
might have a problem, or vice versa. The faulty drive may be screwing up the
system even if your booted into the good one. Man, we're running out of ideas
here, and clutching at straws. Nigel.
On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 7:23 pm, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
It has not been a good week.
As I mentioned yesterday I swapped my hardware into an identical box
as my original machine. Yesterday everything seemed to have returned to
normal operation. I watched some movies, worked on some music, and so
forth.
Today I powered up the box, logged on to the net, downloaded the
latest Csound CVS and started compiling. After a few minutes everything
froze again, the machine was locked tight as a drum. I had to pull the
plug to restart, but when grub came up my keyboard was frozen. I pulled
the plug again and got my keyboard back after restarting.
Now I'm running memtest again. I realized yesterday that I'd run it on
only one RAM stick so I thought I'd better check again. However, at this
point I'm starting to suspect a bad drive. But *two* bad drives in the
system ?? As I mentioned in an earlier message, the machine failure
occurred regardless of which drive I was using (RH9 on /dev/hdb, FC3 on
/dev/hda).
So I'm bummed again. Looks like it's time to bite the bullet and buy a
whole new system. :(
Best,
dp