[Gllug] Diagnosing hardware faults

[Gerd]

On 29/11/2010 08:35, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 29 Nov, Steve Parker wrote:
> I have had intermittent contact problems on 4-pin IDE type drive power
> extender/splitter cables, and try to avoid them where possible.

There is something to be said for taking the whole box to pieces and
putting it back together again.

My last machines that were broken had a bad contact on the SATA
connector and in another case a bad disk (smartctl showed this up
quickly, but it running Windows I didn't really know what was going on).

Gerd.
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