In my case, I've changed cables (used both 40 & 80 pin), changed memory, video, NIC, HDD and the only thing I haven't tried is disabling the onboard sound and using a PCI sound card.
On Monday 18 March 2002 10:33 pm, you wrote: > One more thing you might want to check/replace... the ribbon cables. I've > had some in the past that with a slight bump would make the data on the > drive APEAR corrupt even though the corruption was in the data transfer not > the drive. Then when I'd try to fsck it... ooops. Since then if it's > mission critical I've found that light twisting and pulling (Note I said > light) to check connection quality has saved me a ton of headaches. Did > you change cables when you changed drives? A good way to check if you can > is when a drive seems to be bad, pop it in another box and see what > happens. Many a time it's tested good on another box and my problems were > cables first ram second. > > James > > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:57:08 +0000 > > Nick Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I heard a funny story once. A couple of workers from a big > > nameless company where woking on (WindBlows) laptops on an American > > Airlines flight. Started out fine, but after a few hours things started > > to go wrong and eventually both PCs came down in a heap and wouldn't > > reboot. It turned out that there where magnets in the tray tables, > > designed to stop them rattling during flight. As the disks whirred > > round, they where slowly erasing themselves. Unless your have a chassis > > speaker close to your drives, I doubt that this is your problem, but who > > knows... > > > > Nick. > > > > Ken Thompson wrote: > > >On Monday 18 March 2002 03:36 am, you wrote: > > >>Hi everyone, > > >> > > >>I got a tremendous problem here. > > >>I shut down my MDK8.1 perfectly, but when I restarted it, it says I > > >> have a corrupted filesystem that needs to be checked. Sometimes the > > >> checking doesn't pass and I have to do fsck in maintenance. This time > > >> the rc.d files are corrupted and I can't start at all anymore. > > >>Well, I know I could just install again from scratch, but the trick is, > > >>this happened on MDK8.0, then on MDK8.1. I thought the HD was getting > > >> old, so I installed it on a totally new one. After a couple weeks, > > >> there I am again. > > > > > >I've had nearly the same problem and have found no solution yet. > > >AMD Athalon 1.2GHZ > > >512 RAM > > >Epox 8KTA3+ > > >Matrox millineum 450 > > >LinkSys NIC > > >Onboard sound > > >USR Hardware modem V.92 > > >I've had the mainboard warranteed and have changed out memory, HDD, > > > Video and NIC cards. > > >I still get a slow data corruption and end up having to re-install to > > > clean it up. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936
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