[TriLUG] Its broke and I gotta fix it

[Joselito Almario]

In addition to checking your jumpers cable power and such you might want ot
also check the status of the controllers on the motherboard and the hard
drive itself.  Usually if the controllers are bad you can still see the hard
drive registered, but anythings possible.  YOu can use a tool like
microscope 9 if you can get a hold of it, or Tuff test which is more
accesible, but nor as thorough as Microscope 9.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf Of
Jturena at aol.com
  Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:57 PM
  To: trilug at trilug.org
  Subject: [TriLUG] Its broke and I gotta fix it


  This is rather selfish, but I have a system that "jammed" on me, and I am
new with Linux, and need to fix the problem, so was wondering if I could get
any help here, or not.
  (the machine is in the hands of a repairman that cannot fix it because he
knows less about Linux than me, but I was hoping he would examine the
hardware-- I need to get the machine back from him)
  Running RedHat7.0. Home PC.
  Had Gnome open; had Netscape open; computer was sitting 'on'; woke up one
morning in the wee hours of the morning and heard my computer "cycling"
through a short rhythmic whirl. Interface was unresponsive; had to turn off
machine to proceed;
  Turned back on-- during booting it read "primary master disk: None;
primary slave disk: None".
  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).
  (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)
  Anyway, as always, I would appreciate any comments.
  Thanks in advance, for at least the opportunity to post this.
  Jim
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