[Novalug] Dead Computer Diagnosis

[David A. Hammond]

Greg,

Thanks.  I forgot to mention the disk.
It is fine.  I moved it to another machine
so I could access the files on it, with
no problem.

I also tried booting from a bootable
memtest86 floppy, with and without the
hard drive connected, with exactly the
same results I described earlier.

Thanks,
Dave

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:52:13 -0500
>From: gregory pryzby <greg at pryzby.org>  
>Subject: Re: [Novalug] Dead Computer Diagnosis  
>To: hammonds at erols.com
>Cc: novalug at calypso.tux.org
>
>I didn't see anything about the disk. 
>
>Does the disk spin up? If you are brave, you can 'lift' the disk and
>if it has spun up, you will 'feel' the gyro going. 
>
>If the disk is working, move it to another machine. 
>
>My guess is disk is dead. If that is not it, the system just quit.
>This has happened to me in the past as my machines run 24x7 for years
>5+) until they just die.
>
>
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