off topic: hardware advice

[Gregory Nowak]

Backup and wait a minute.
What kind of a problem are
you specifically referring to.
Tell us exactly what happens and
in what sircumstances if any particular ones.
Greg


On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi, my laptop is having intermitent hardware failure.  When I used windows,
> I thought it could be a bad driver.  Now that I have Linux installed, I know
> for sure it is hardware.  Specifically, my hard drive.  My question is:
> since I always hear the drive power up, is it more likely to be the controler,
> or could it just be the hard drive.
> 
> When it happened this morning, I didn't have a DOS floppy with ASAP to varify
> what message it displayed.  I've got one now for the next time it happens.
> 
> One other thing, after trying to boot 4 or 5 times, it came up with no
> problem.  This behavior is consistant any time it happens.
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> 
> 
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