Author: Steve Kirk Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Hardware Diagnosis
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 18:57:46 Rob Malpass wrote: > Evening all Evening :-)
> If not a flat battery, then it points to a faulty primary hard disk.
> The one in question is 40Gb PATA and has been in use for 3 years
> also. The odd thing is if it's an error on the disk, it's seemingly
> broken one moment, then fixed after a reboot - most odd.
A problem with the hard disk would be my gut reaction, or the connector
between hard disk and controller.
Could you open up the pc and reseat the ribbon cables for the hard disk,
just to make sure? That would be the first thing I'd try...
