<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/4 Craig Huff <<a href="mailto:huffcslists@gmail.com" target="_blank">huffcslists@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, steve <<a href="mailto:sfreilly@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">sfreilly@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> you probably already checked this, but, anything interesting in the<br>
> messages or boot log?<br>
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</div>It is worth a check tonight, but I wouldn't expect anything since, by<br>
the time the system is booting, everything is always working fine.</blockquote><div><br>Just to second what's already been said, deffo sounds like a HD dying, but it might be PSU?<br><br>How light is your PSU? (Light psu == bad psu)<br>
<br>Have you changed the cables? or do they just look ok? Is the motherboard properly secured? (I had an intermittant fault on a PC a few years ago where the mobo was only screwed in with 1 screw, it moved ever so slightly as it heated and randomly crashed; although that would probably be more intermittant.)<br>
<br>does it work better if the drive is warm? (ie, is the grease on the bearings stopping it spinning up reliably?) mind you it's a new drive so probably not.<br><br>Are all the pins ok on the mobo connector? is there any fluff on either of the connectors? Does it work better if you swap the PATA drives around? Have you tried a PATA/SATA adaptor (incase it's the IDE interface?) <br>
<br>I'd deffo check the PSU too, if it is a cheap one it's worth replacing anyway. Over the 10-15 years I've been messing around with PCs, other than the odd HD failure the only real issues I've had have been with cheap PSUs, and when they go they can take things with them.<br>
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At least I have dumps of /, /boot, and /var now. I ran into problems<br>
trying to get the .mpg files to tape. I don't know if I'll be able to<br>
make the time to tar subsets up that will fit on single tapes and spin<br>
them out to my DLT drive.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>As an aside if you don't mind fiddling, bacula is worth a look, once you get it set up it's quite a competent backup solution. (and it's free. :) )<br><br><br></div></div>