Keith Watson wrote:
What boot-loader do you use? I used to use LILO but have found GRUB to be easier to configure.
LILO. I've never looked at GRUB.
If it is software related I would check out the particular combination of motherboard/BIOS/chip set you have. However last time I had a problem like this it turned out to be a slowly dying power supply where the voltages where drifting away from the required 5v or 12v and causing odd things to happen like video/sound card lock-up, keyboard or mouse problems, etc).
Coo. That sounds exactly like the problems I've been having. Do you have to be moderately good at hardware to check for this?
Thanks, Jenny /me prepares to whisk new hard drive out of wrapper....
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:53, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Coo. That sounds exactly like the problems I've been having. Do you have to be moderately good at hardware to check for this?
Thanks, Jenny /me prepares to whisk new hard drive out of wrapper....
It may be Power Supply, to be honest unless you have a reasonably accurate Multimeter laying around, Substitution will probably be cheaper than getting the equipment to test such things.
Worse than that it could be ripple or power on spikes on one of the lines, in which case you are going to need even more expensive equipment to check it.
Just a thought though, Did you plug that Serial modem into either/both of these machines (remember the time you mistakenly plugged the serial port of your modem into your laptop's parallel port) did you try it on these machines as well. If so have you had the parallel ports working since then ?
Regards
Wayne
PS, You should try and convince work to pay for VMware, why ruin the uptime of a perfectly good Linux system by starting windows :o)
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