Subj : Re: What's wrong with my comp?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Wed Sep 01 2004 10:06 am

Pandora Xero enlightened us with:
> Its worse than i thought. BIOS will occasionally not be able to
> detect one of my drives. when i boot from either drive, if i reset
> by means of hitting the reset button on the case, the drive is
> sometimes not detected in POST.

Try removing all IDE cables, and hook up one IDE device at the time,
just as you did with the RAM Testing.

> And in the latest instance, i switched memory modules, to test them
> individually again, and the first few times it wouldn't load up.

Use memtest86 to test your memory - a lot easier than swapping
modules.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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