On Tuesday 28 August 2007 15:15:30 James Hatridge wrote: > Hi all, > > I seem to be having odd problems. I see three problems with my system. > #1 sometimes the bios do not find all three of my HDs (1xIDE 2x Sata). > #2 sometimes the picture on the screen will stop with lines running left to > right, when this happens the whole system locks up and I have to hard boot. > #3 today for the first time while Linux was loading it stopped for about 60 > seconds and then said "ATA-1 time out". It booted, but some programs were > not there. I rebooted and it was OK. > > I hope this is a software problem, but I believe the hardware is about to > break. Can anyone give me an idea about what to look at? BTW I'm running > 10.1 on ASRock P4VM8 with 1gb mem, 1x80gb IDE, & 2x Sata 200gb HDs.
- check the (S)ATA cables, long cables=trouble (if you use cheap/bad cables). - if possible try another PSU, i had so much random failures with cheap ones (similar to your problems). try also the usual stuff like memtest, bios/firmware update (unbelievable what some vendors sell as final hardware). Maybe reset bios to default settings. -- with kind regards, Martin Lasarsch, Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
