My Acer Aspire 1703 Desk-Note is playing up. It suddenly and instantly
dies on an intermittent basis. It appears to occur more when under
heavy processor load. Sometimes a little warning sign is given by the
screen dimming for a fraction of a second beforehand. Unplugging the
power lead and re-plug
Here, here...all the best.
Thank You for all your effort in helping to run linux meetings and
events.
Ralph
Quoting Adrian Mageanu :
> My thoughts and wishes too.
>
> Chris, I look forward to your posts from afar.
>
> Adrian
>
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 20:13 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Is there anyone living on the Harewood side of town who could perhaps burn me
a copy of Knoppix live / bootable CD that I could pick up later tonight..I'll
supply the CD of course!
If so contact me off-list or Tel. 3594195
It would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ralph
Could I possibly ask the person who sent the reply outlining the XP recovery
disc mbr fix info to re-post please. I accidently deleted the info and have
not been able to log onto the clug website to view archived posts.
Thanks to all who have helped so far...I'm still working through all
suggesti
The guys at Dove appeared to have found the power supply problem but not fully
fixed GRUB or the partioning / data transfer to the new expanded hard
drive...they are still trying to figure things out...but clearly they are not
linux trained.
Is there a kind soul who would be prepared to take a lo
Thanks for the reply Steve.
I have't been able to follow through with your recommendations as yet as my pC
is still experiencing un-expected power downs and freezes...so it appears that
the hard drive was not at fault as Dove diagnosed!!
I did manage to get a live Knoppix to run for a few minute
I've just had the nice guys at Dove Electronics replace a faulty hard drive
for me. In the process they upgraded from 80 to 250gb and expanded the
partitions (only the M$ ones as they were using Norton Ghost and couldn't do
anything with the Linux formatted ones).
My original hard drive used GRUB
