On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Goodpasture</b> <<a href="mailto:goofygrin@gmail.com">goofygrin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Running Mythdora 4 (upgraded to the SD, 20.1?)<br> </div>
<div>Maybe your memory is going bad? I'd get memtest86 and burn it to a CD to verify that the memory is good.<br> </div></blockquote></div>Sean,<br><br>My original FE installation was built with Fedora Core 6 following Jarrod's HOWTO,
<br>while I just rebuilt it using a different disk and MythDora 4 last night. I didn't do a <br>lot of poking around (shows to watch, you know), but I could see that some things<br>were set up differently. Maybe that will help.
<br><br>As for the memory suspicion, I had considered that, too. I have already run it through<br>the wringer with memtest and had no errors in multiple passes.<br><br>The HD I was using when it ground to a halt is pretty old, and I have the thought stuck
<br>in the back of my head that the windoze system this used to be on had similar problems<br>way back when I used it before (it had been in the bone pile for several years).<br><br>BTW, when I say ground to a halt, I mean that I had more and more problems booting up
<br>until finally it got to the point that too many services wouldn't start and I couldn't get the <br>system to reach the point of starting X. The disk still *works*, and I now have it as a slave<br>for the time being to extract customization files and settings from over the next few days.
<br>After that, I expect to put it through the wringer with some kind of disk activity testing to <br>see if I can prove this to be a sick drive.<br><br>Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, everyone!<br><br>Craig.<br>