[Chester LUG] de-lurking - a desperate question!

[john]

Bust cd or hard drive or memory.
Hope it ain't the hard drive they have rocketed in price!
John
On 12/11/2011 09:59 PM, Tim White wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Don't know if you remember me – I came to a few meetings right at the 
> start of the group, but then moved to Manchester 2 or 3 years ago and 
> have followed you all as a lurker since then. Anyway, I was wondering 
> if the Chester hive mind can offer any advice on a problem which is 
> doing my head in at the moment... Apologies for the long story.
>
> I have a desktop PC, about 7/8 years old, Athlon processor, Radeon 
> graphics card, which has happily run Linux for years starting with 
> PCLinuxOS and then Debian 5 and 6 stable. In the past 2 or 3 months it 
> got a bit flaky and would not update to the latest (Deb stable) kernel 
> either through Synaptic or apt-get. Then last week it wouldn't boot at 
> all and reported segfaults at boot.
>
> So I tried to:
> Re-install a Clonezilla system backup (from before the errors started 
> happening)
> Install a newly downloaded Deb 6 CD
> Re- install from my previous Deb 5 and 6 CDs, which I know ran OK
> Install other linuxes – SUSE, Fedora CDs
> Run live CDs – Suse, PCLinuxOS, probably others.
> They all fail, either in the install or on first boot. Usually the 
> error message is about a segfault, sometimes about a corrupt install 
> but I suspect that is a false message. So, I think a hardware problem.
>
> BUT I can run Puppy from a USB stick which loads into RAM. I have 
> tried changing the HD (SATA and IDE) and CD drives, no difference, and 
> run memtest, all OK. I don't understand. Why can I run from USB / RAM, 
> but not hard disk or CD? Of course, I'm trying to avoid the conclusion 
> that the thing is terminally broken. I can't afford a new one, I've 
> just bought a new bike! Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
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