HI I have a problem with my machine hanging. It has been getting progressively worse. I am forced to do a hard reboot (I believe) as the keyboard does not respond. At one point in the reboot I am prompted to perform a file system integrity check. I have up until recently been saying yes to this. It seemed like a good idea. What I am finding however is that it is getting increasingly hard to get past this point in the boot process - it hangs again during the check. This was not too bad at first as by the 3rd or 4th time it generally passed and would boot OK. Now I can't seem to get past the check - after the 12th attempt I just skip the check, - but now I am hanging a great deal more (6 times in the process of writing this email!).
What do I need to do in order to track down the cause of the problem? I have lost some functionality (often used menu items for example, though sometimes the executables are still OK and I can add the menu item again, other times the program stops working), and the software installer is no longer present in the Mandrake Control Centre after a message popped up while using it that said it was not a valid executable.... ?! It seems reasonable to me that corrupted files on the HDD could conceivably cause this behaviour. How do I check the drive for problems, or am I barking up the wrong tree? I noticed occasional reports of "spurious IRQ on 8259a - IRQ 7" in the boot screens - relevant? I am running 9.2 (Kernel 2.4.22-21) on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, 1024MB DDR RAM, AMD 2500, NVIDIA FX5200 256MB video and 120GB Western Digital SATA HDD. -- Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (school) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (legacy/home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for MSN messenger) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Yahoo messenger)
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