On Sunday, February 14, 2021 03:22:25 PM Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Well, there is one other option: replace the motherboard. Given that > it's becoming increasingly cranky on boot, that might be the way to go. > We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > machine it would get past the Grub screen, then sit there forever with > a screen that was blank except for a blinking cursor. It took about > half a dozen tries before it finally continued the boot process from > there.
Becaise GRUB is one one of your disks, I'd be suspicious of the disks before (or at least as much as) the motherboard. > I seem to recall that this happened last time we had a power > outage too. For now I think I'll just keep my backups current, and > come the day it decides not to boot anymore I'll just replace it.
