Also check battery on mother board! Bearings could be going on Hard Drive -- try a new one(lock would occur if HD speed flaky).<br><br><b><i>Sam Stern <samstern@samstern.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br>>-----Original Message-----<br>>From: nflug-bounces@nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces@nflug.org]<br>>On Behalf Of Frank Kumro<br>>Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 04:40 PM<br>>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>>Subject: [nflug] Hardware Issue<br>><br>>This is a general question not linux specific. My main workstation has<br>>been locking up and fails to boot sometimes. Now locking up means the<br>>mouse still moves but no programs are launched, etc. This machine is<br>>custom built and I cannot figure out what the problem is. After it<br>>locks up or anytime when I try to reboot the computer it hangs on<br>>detecting ide drives then
trys to intel pxe boot. After I disconnect<br>>all ide drives, boot with no ide drives connected, reconnect them,<br>>then boot it works. Now does this sound like a HD issue? (I have no<br>>problems with this drive when its running, I just copied over 40gb to<br>>its last nite and it was flawless) Or could this be an issue with the<br>>MB IDE controllers? Any advice would be great because I need this<br>>machine up, i have alot of coding to do (need to pay the bills).<br>><br><br>Frank,<br><br>It could be your hard drive. However, it is more likely that mechical stress<br>is to blame. Mechanical stress tends to cause loose parts to become more<br>loose over time. I've noticed since I moved to upstate New York from<br>Baltimore, MS (Last Year) that this is happening to my systems allot. As in,<br>ever 60 to 90 days a system will appear to fail due to loose cables or<br>memory chips). To rule this problem out, open your computer blow out all the<br>dust
and gunk with some compressed air. Then remove (have a care here, it is<br>easy to damage worn flat cables when doing this) and reseat all items you<br>can (Memory Chips, Add on cards, cables, etc) and gently push down on all<br>chips that are socked but not easily removed (such as BIOS chips, ASIC's<br>etC). You may want to spring for a new set of round cables (I find these<br>more reliable than flat cables) sat this time as well.<br><br>To rule out hard drive failure, schedule a Long smart scan (smarttools -T<br>long) and wait the appraise time (usually takes 30 minutes per 50GB or so).<br><br>Good Luck!<br><br>Sam Stern<br>Grand Island, New York, USA<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br>nflug@nflug.org<br>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<br></blockquote><br><p>
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