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On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> R C Mitchell wrote: |
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>> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk |
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>> I decided |
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>> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation |
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>> ... |
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>> I'm in complete denial over this blatant non-specific hardware |
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>> fault ... |
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IFIFY. |
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> hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue |
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> like this come to anything else. |
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+1. |
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> Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me and try a stick from |
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> another machine, or at least reseat it? |
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I'm gonna disagree. RAM is like the classic answer, but my recent |
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experiences suggest it can be frikkin' anything. I mean, try the RAM |
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first, because it's easy, but due to the number of components in the |
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average PC I reckon that the statistics say it's something else |
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(especially in the case of typical home-build PCs built from parts |
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salvaged, donated, scrounged and hung-onto-for-sentimental-reasons |
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over the course of several years). The only way to be sure is to |
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unplug the USB headers and currently-unused floppy & optical drives, |
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then swap out the remaining components one at a time. This is why I |
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HATE messing around with hardware. |
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If everything else works fine under LameLunix, maybe it's the hard- |
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disk? I've certainly seen hard-drives cause BSODs, even after zeroing |
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them & reformatting. |
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> but girls don't exist on tha interwebz! |
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Nevertheless I will indulge in the suspension of my disbelief & be |
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extra extra helpful. [1] |
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Stroller. |
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[1] Perhaps you haven't seen me when I'm being unhelpful?. |