[Gloucs] Repairs

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

    Does it crash at roughly the same time each day?

    Have you tried reseating all the components? Perhaps there is an 
iffy power connector somewhere?

    You've probably tried all of these...

    Tony.

David and Sharon wrote:

>John Kilgour wrote:
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>>On Thursday 07 December 2006 09:37, Sean Keeney wrote:
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>>>What spec is the PC?
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>It's an AMD 3500 am2 on k9n board (nvidia chipset),1gb corsair ram, 80Gb
>SATA2, 120Gb IDE. I had wondered about the IDE drive conflicting with
>the SATA, but they ought to be on separate channels?
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>>>How random are the crashes? Really random or after it's warmed up/when
>>>certain software is run/ etc? And what happens when it crashes - does it
>>>immediately reboot?
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>Crashes seem to happen using live disc too and only when cold, hence it
>must be a hardware thing. Usually when it's warm it's ok., and will buzz
>along all day no probs. 
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>>>If you give me a few answers it'd help. I've got loads of parts hanging
>>>round too if you need them, but it's usually a reinstall issue.
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>On 07/12/06, David and Sharon <david.sharon-copsegreenfarm at farming.co.uk>
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>>>>I hate to admit not being able to handle it myself, but does anyone know
>>>>a good/cheap repair person for a sickly pc.
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>>>>I am getting to the stage where having to boot from corrupted drives
>>>>(due to freeze ups/reboots) is getting annoying and I don't have the
>>>>parts etc to chop and change components to find out which one is duff.
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>>David
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>>Have you got a live CD of something like Knoppix. I have found this to be 
>>useful to see whether any problem is hardware or software. I am perfectly 
>>capable of wrecking a Linux or W*****s installation, but a live CD can help 
>>sort things out. Remember to back up your /home directory while you still 
>>can. (Memo to self - "Must do this again"!)
>>Good luck.
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>Having written this and removed harddrive/ put it back in again, I've
>had no probs except for the fact that  said harddrive appears to be
>reading /writing  slowly?!
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>David
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