Re: [linux-audio-user] [OT] disaster redux

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
Received on Sun Jun 12 00:15:10 2005