Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 17:49:29 05/17/04
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On May 17, 2004 at 15:14:56, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >http://www.comtek4u.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=printpage&artid=1 > >Steve, > >Read the above. Your hard drive is probably OK. Try looking for overheating >problems with the CPU. If the cooling fan and heat sink is even a little bit >loose then you could get all the problems you mentioned. Trust me. > >Don't be a Griswold as in National Lampoon's Vacation and spend $500.00 when a >$7.00 fan/heatsink is to blame. > >TJ Generally when the the OS tells me something I tend to believe it. It is not always correct, but if it says "Disk Error" I suspect that is indeed the problem. If he were getting BSODs or kernel segfaults, perhaps I would try a new heatsink, but all of his problems looked to be disk related. It is very hard to troubleshoot modern PCs. I have something of an advantage because I have so much hardware, that I can swap things around until it works :) Also, more hard disk space is never bad, and modern hard drives are cheap. Worst case, he can fill it with pirated music or 6-man tablebases :) anthony, who has 10 hard drives in two computers [zonko@endomorph zonko]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 19G 3.2G 16G 18% / /dev/mgroup/lmgroup 567G 330G 237G 59% /media none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /dev/shm That is serial ata, not true SCSI though :(
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