Dead disk

[Dotan Cohen]

On 16/06/06, James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>  * Have you tried memtest86? It's on all the recent Fedora install CDs
>    and DVDs (type memtest86 at the first prompt). It will diagnose
>    (most) memory errors.

I have, it ran all last night. Found nothing. I have it on Hiron's Boot Disk.

>
>  * Have you tried booting into runlevel 3 and run as much as you know
>    how to in text mode? Something involving /dev/urandom, bzip2 and cmp
>    might be a good idea.

Could you elaborate a bit more on this? I'm araid that my power over
the command line is very limited. And I'm not exactly a CS major!

>
>    If the system is any more reliable doing this, then suspect the
>    graphics hardware or drivers.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.

Dotan Cohen
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