[TriLUG] Its broke and I gotta fix it

[Jon Carnes]

I gotta agree with these guys... sounds a lot like a HW issue.

Do you by any chance have a surge protector (or even a UPS) on the machine? 
The power where I live is so bad that it eats up a computer in less than 
month if you try to run it wild and free off of CP&L.  The one second 
brown-outs followed by a sudden surge can lead to some real smoke and 
tears...

Jon Carnes
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On Thursday 07 February 2002 23:18, Ben Pitzer wrote:
> Well, I'd look at the IDE cable first to make sure that it's securely
> attached at both ends.  If you pull it out, make sure that you put it
> back in the same way as before.  If you have your CD and HDD on the same
> IDE channel, try putting them on seperate channels (as in HDD on IDE1
> and CD-ROM on IDE2).  See if your bios recognizes anything.  If that
> fails, try replacing the IDE cable with a new one.  Lastly, I'd have
> someone check out the drive for you in another machine.  The drive
> itself may be hosed.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Pitzer
>