*Sigh*
But that's the nature of intermittent problems. They're , "off agin, on agin, gone agin ... Finnagin."
(And if that reference didn't ring any bells ... either your education or your memory (or both) has some gaping holes in it/them.)
It's a bit of an involved tale, but mercifully shortened it comes down to this.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=288998
That particular box has been with me a while. In fact, it's the reason I now have this one.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=242277 (Skip to the end. It's a long thread.)
What had me searching for a replacement was in essence two things. Parts were getting to be impossible to find, and I was getting random and intermittent full-system lockups.
Skip forward a few years, and I re-assembled the old one, and put it out in the living room as an "entertainment center." (Watching movies and tuning in internet radio.) I was very careful about such things as heat, airflow, solid electrical connections and known reliable components. In summation, it's been working surprisingly well. The random locks had disappeared.
Until this morning. Five in a row over two hour's time, as a matter of fact. <..:dis:..>
It'd be easier if I could blame the recent fedora install ... but I can't. I was running MINT-10 during three of them.
So ... What changed between last night and this morning?
I dunno, but it's got to be hardware related. I had the box open last night to move the drives one space apart in the HDD rack. (Better cooling that way.) But I didn't mess with anything else. The only connections I touched were the IDE ribbon cables and the molex connectors on the drives. (Both drives are new to the box since I took it out of service when I got the new one.)
When I did this re-build, I replaced the power supply (Natch the leads and molex connectors, too), and the IDE ribbon cables on general principles.
Given the history and the situation ... my first knee-jerk is to question the new cables, or the IDE connectors on the motherboard ... or back to the motherboard itself. But that really doesn't explain why it's been working like a charm for the last year or so without a hiccup ... until this morning.
Then the question crosses my mind about whether or not I should even be messing with it. It's not like I'm computer poor around here or anything. And I'd hate to try to give it away. Those kinds of things always come back to haunt me. And I'm just too dang cheap to toss it in a dumpster. If nothing else, it's a perfectly good case with a good PATA CD-RW, DVD RW, two HDDs, a nice sound card (Yamaha XG), power supply, fans, etc.
Hmmm.
I wonder what kind of a package deal I could get on a six core with memory and a mobo?
<..:doh:..> Aw, dang it! I forgot. Nothing comes with IDE connects anymore. <..:(..>
I hate it when good stuff becomes obsolete. <..![]()
..>
But that's the nature of intermittent problems. They're , "off agin, on agin, gone agin ... Finnagin."
(And if that reference didn't ring any bells ... either your education or your memory (or both) has some gaping holes in it/them.)
It's a bit of an involved tale, but mercifully shortened it comes down to this.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=288998
That particular box has been with me a while. In fact, it's the reason I now have this one.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=242277 (Skip to the end. It's a long thread.)
What had me searching for a replacement was in essence two things. Parts were getting to be impossible to find, and I was getting random and intermittent full-system lockups.
Skip forward a few years, and I re-assembled the old one, and put it out in the living room as an "entertainment center." (Watching movies and tuning in internet radio.) I was very careful about such things as heat, airflow, solid electrical connections and known reliable components. In summation, it's been working surprisingly well. The random locks had disappeared.
Until this morning. Five in a row over two hour's time, as a matter of fact. <..:dis:..>
It'd be easier if I could blame the recent fedora install ... but I can't. I was running MINT-10 during three of them.
So ... What changed between last night and this morning?
I dunno, but it's got to be hardware related. I had the box open last night to move the drives one space apart in the HDD rack. (Better cooling that way.) But I didn't mess with anything else. The only connections I touched were the IDE ribbon cables and the molex connectors on the drives. (Both drives are new to the box since I took it out of service when I got the new one.)
When I did this re-build, I replaced the power supply (Natch the leads and molex connectors, too), and the IDE ribbon cables on general principles.
Given the history and the situation ... my first knee-jerk is to question the new cables, or the IDE connectors on the motherboard ... or back to the motherboard itself. But that really doesn't explain why it's been working like a charm for the last year or so without a hiccup ... until this morning.
Then the question crosses my mind about whether or not I should even be messing with it. It's not like I'm computer poor around here or anything. And I'd hate to try to give it away. Those kinds of things always come back to haunt me. And I'm just too dang cheap to toss it in a dumpster. If nothing else, it's a perfectly good case with a good PATA CD-RW, DVD RW, two HDDs, a nice sound card (Yamaha XG), power supply, fans, etc.
Hmmm.
I wonder what kind of a package deal I could get on a six core with memory and a mobo?
<..:doh:..> Aw, dang it! I forgot. Nothing comes with IDE connects anymore. <..:(..>
I hate it when good stuff becomes obsolete. <..
..>