On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:03:29 +0100 (BST)
"Vic" wrote:
>
> > However it (an old Co itmpaq N160) is working perfectly well with
> > Debian Squeeze on it, but it will only work with a wired connection
> > as it doesn't recognise cardbus PCMCIA cards.
>
> Does it recognise any PCMCIA cards?
Mornin
Thanks for everybody's help and suggestions. In the end I bought a new
PC from ebuyer for £190. However the old PC has been running for 3 days
without the case cover and I am inclined to think that the problem could
be temperature related. I had ruled this out because it crashed shortly
after s
On 13 October 2011 10:15, Roger Munford
wrote:
> Thanks for everybody's help and suggestions. In the end I bought a new PC
> from ebuyer for £190. However the old PC has been running for 3 days without
> the case cover and I am inclined to think that the problem could be
> temperature related. I h
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 10:28 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On an old PC i had, I found that the CPU fan/heat sink had got very
> dusty,
Similar. Some days the CPU fan started and the PC was OK, sometimes it
didn't start and the PC would crash.
I resorted to just giving the fan a flick at
On 13 Oct 2011, at 10:28, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> After replacing the paste and cleaning the heat sink/fan, the PC ran
> OK for another year or two until the motherboard truely failed, so a
> replaced the PC.
I did similar 2 weekends back (used TIM cleaner to remove the old CPU/Heatsink
p
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:36:19 +0100
john lewis wrote:
wicd seems to have been what I was missing.
I have now used that network manager's properties setting page to
define the network ESSID and passphrase and to tell the Vaio to
automatically connect to that wireless network.
--
John Lewis
u
> I am inclined to think that the problem could
> be temperature related. I had ruled this out because it crashed shortly
> after switching on on not particularly warm days.
Have you replaced the thermal compound between the CPU and the cooler?
That usually goes off. It used to be 3 years betwee
Dennis Ritchie, dies aged 70
True vision, really amazing. I would like to have met Dennis Ritchie. He
has left the human race with a lot of good stuff to use :)
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0328230/dennis-ritchie-creator-of-c-programming-language-passed-away
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
