Catestrophic failure

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Michael Hipp wrote:

> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
>> This morning I can into work where I leave this guy running, and
>> the machine is nonresponsive and the hard drive light is on
>> solid. I can ping it, but SSH to it hangs for as long as I leave
>> it.
>
>
> My money is on hardware, in this order:
>
> 1. Hard drive 2. Memory 3. Hard drive cable 4. PSU 5. CPU cooler 6.
> Hard drive controller 7. PCI device 8. Mobo

Definitely a good ordered list to follow.  I'll try Ubuntu for a bit.
If it has a similar problem, I'll trade in the laptop for another
one.  Perhaps by then the desktop crew will have standardized on
something good again.   This laptop is considerably faster and has
more memory than the corporate standard :)

>
> This is definitely not a box to trust with anything remotely
> important.
>
Gee.  Thanks.  That would be my production work laptop, and
unfortunately it's the one I've warned they will have to pry out of my
cold, dead hands.  Yet it may be that time.  Lord knows it's thrown a
lot of heat over the years.

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Matthew Carpenter
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