On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:31:51 -0700 Erik Lane <[email protected]> dijo:
> If you all remember, I've been fighting my laptop for the past few > months. I finally seem to have found the culprit. > > After playing around swapping parts I found that if I used a different > hard drive it worked perfect. But I also found that the hard drive > worked perfect if it was in another laptop. Huh??? I thought..... > > I got out some contact cleaner and played around with the hard drive > connections and that seemed to help some, then after messing around > with the exact position it was mounted it now seems to be working > wonderful again! It's possible that I will still need to look at it > again - maybe a cracked solder joint or ???? but at the least I've > tracked down the problem to where to look, which will be enough, I > think. > > Everything seems to be in great shape, just needing the connection > fixed. This could even be a long term thing as it is, but I'm not > necessarily counting on that... :) I had exactly the same problem with a Compaq R3240. Except I could never get the connection to stay fixed permanently. I got a new disk and it had the same problems. I shimmed the disk into its bay to make sure the connection was tight, but to no avail. It would appear to work OK for maybe a month or so, and then I'd get corruption. I became good friends with fsck. Eventually I gave up and bought a new computer. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
