This may seem crazy but my adventures this month just seems so. I replaced my motherboard [1] to which it decided to crash regularly. Thus I went to investigate a possible cause: bad sectors [2], in which I managed to kill 30GB of useful data.
The crashes are still occuring, and *ONLY* in Linux. My dusty ECI Client only using Windows 2000 partition has survived, which is now assisting me PuTTying. Prior applying a drastic weight plan on my hard drive my system regularly locked up and crash on Linux (post new motherboard). Although that partition is flattend, I still jump into knoppix (and variants) and experince lock ups. I was just using Knoppix to use my TV Card, and it decided to lock up, I left it locked and ran to the TV to finish whatever I was watching. Came back my system off and wouldn't power on... on closer inspection, a nice smell from the PSU. I think PSU's have a timer to allow power after a certain time as I am using it now. Now is it my motherboard not being nice to my existing PSU, or does the PSU need to leave. The PSU is 5 months old (300W). A decision I have to make tomorrow as I visit the local PC shop. [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00171.html [2] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00200.html -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Let them hate, so long as they fear" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
