I'll have to admit to having a temper tantrum about that time and didn't do a total and complete swap out. Winderz always get's me ire up <G>.....
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 05:29 am, you wrote: > really, no matter what slot the nic is in and was the vid AGP or PCI and > what slot was it in? > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 20:25, you wrote: > > Just the one drive on tha first channel, CD & ZIP on second channel. > > I think I just have a flaky MoBo, even the new one won't run 98SE with > > the NIC and the Matrox vid without locking up. > > Take either one out and it's fine <in winderz>..... > > Runs much better in mdk8.1 > > I'm testing 8.2 right now using an 18Gb Samsung, an ATI all in wonder > > AGP 8Mb vid and 3Com NIC, so far, so good..... > > > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 11:32 am, you wrote: > > > when you changed the cable did you have one drive on each cable or more > > > than one drive on each IDE channel? > > > > > > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 12:48, you wrote: > > > > 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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