[LBo] hard drive failure?

[Jackson Robertson]

Just thought I would let everyone know what's up with this issue. I ended up
getting a new mother board and graphics card, once I installed these and
reinstalled arch I no longer am experiencing this issue. I'm saying my
mother board was jacked. I say this as I had more issues with my mother
board than would explain this alone. Here is an example of another issue
seemingly caused by my mother board...
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=340275
I know my old graphics card was good so that wasn't the cause of those
apparitions. So I guess I will never buy from asus again as they have
horrible customer support and I have had a lot of trouble with that old
mother board. I'm just glad to finally have a stable system that will last
longer than 2-3 hours before crashing. Thanks for the help provided.

Jackson

On 1/11/07, Jackson Robertson <daedalusman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have both windows and arch linux installed on this machine. I haven't
> exhibited this problem under windows but I hardly use it compared with
> linux. Nor have I seen this with livecd's but as I practically never use
> them I can't really say that it wouldn't happen while using one.
>
> On 1/11/07, Brice Hunt <shoalcreek5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > At this point it is most likely the motherboard.  The first thing to do
> > is to make sure the BIOS is completely up-to-date.  Use the BIOS and
> > follow the instructions given by the motherboard manufacturer to update
> > it.  If that fails, then you may want to seek out warranty replacement
> > of the motherboard.
> >
> > Also, you didn't say if this computer is running Windows or Linux.  When
> > you install Windows, you have to make sure the motherboard chipset, DMA,
> >
> > and USB drivers are all installed before any other drivers.  You follow
> > that with the video card and other drivers for on-board motherboard
> > peripherals.  I have seen Windows machines exhibit this behavior time
> > after time when the drivers were installed in the incorrect order (it
> > has to do with the order they are listed in the binary Windows system
> > file that loads the drivers).
> >
> > If it is Linux, unless you rolled your own, most Linux distros
> > automagically load the drivers in the correct order.  Problems that
> > might cause what's happening is not having the right driver loading or
> > sometimes having drivers load in the wrong order.  If LiveCD distros
> > don't demonstrate the problem, check into the kernel modules that are
> > loading and make sure all the right ones are loading in the right
> > order.  I haven't ever really needed to do a lot of messing with
> > modules.  (I've installed sensor modules for motherboard temperature and
> > fan sensors and NTFS modules, but not much else.)  Someone with a bit
> > deeper experience than I have would be the one who should give you help
> > in this area, if this is what you need.
> >
> > That's all I can think of.
> >
> > Brice
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