[TriLUG] Its broke and I gotta fix it

[Donald Ball]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 Jturena at aol.com wrote:

> Turned back on-- during booting it read "primary master disk: None; primary
> slave disk: None".

sounds like either the BIOS lost its drive information, or that a drive
cable is simply loose. you might go into the BIOS and tell it to rescan
the IDE chain for devices or whatever. you might also crack open the case
and check the IDE cables and/or jumper settings. you might also try the
drive in another computer, it might be defective.

> Where do I begin?  By telling you what is in it? Ask and I will try and tell
> you-- but like I said, I am brand new with computers. With me it is all a big
> learning process. This one a man put together for me +/- $900. (think I made
> a mistake. But I wanted to learn GNU-Linux. Looks like I am going to get the
> lessons I need).

good way to learn. :)

> (and could it have anything to do with the computer going to "screensaver"
> and running through that entire file, and then whigging out? that would not
> explain the 'lost' disks, though)

everything is screaming hardware problem, i would be surprised if this had
anything to do with linux per se. good luck.

- donald