On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:56, Iain Buchanan wrote:
R C Mitchell wrote:
I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk
I decided
to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation
...
I'm in complete denial over this blatant non-specific hardware
fault ...
IFIFY.
hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue
like this come to anything else.
+1.
Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me and try a stick from
another machine, or at least reseat it?
I'm gonna disagree. RAM is like the classic answer, but my recent
experiences suggest it can be frikkin' anything. I mean, try the RAM
first, because it's easy, but due to the number of components in the
average PC I reckon that the statistics say it's something else
(especially in the case of typical home-build PCs built from parts
salvaged, donated, scrounged and hung-onto-for-sentimental-reasons
over the course of several years). The only way to be sure is to
unplug the USB headers and currently-unused floppy & optical drives,
then swap out the remaining components one at a time. This is why I
HATE messing around with hardware.
If everything else works fine under LameLunix, maybe it's the hard-
disk? I've certainly seen hard-drives cause BSODs, even after zeroing
them & reformatting.
but girls don't exist on tha interwebz!
Nevertheless I will indulge in the suspension of my disbelief & be
extra extra helpful. [1]
Stroller.
[1] Perhaps you haven't seen me when I'm being unhelpful?.
