Is my computer dying? Answer; YES

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:13:43PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Tuesday evening, whilst reading usenet news and trying to respond, I
> got some "Data Bus" error messages on my console on m1800, and had to
> turn off the machine manually, because it stopped responding.  I'm
> definitely looking for a new machine now.

Well that sounds mostly like a problem between the cpu and the chipset,
so it could be broken cpu or broken chipset/motherboard.  Of course a
bad power supply could have slowly damaged either one.  Perhaps the ram
is still OK.

>   I was able to boot up m1800 after work today, and after ReiserFS did
> its "replay" thing, I was able to "scp -r" my Maildir over to m450.  I
> haven't even lost any email.  It's nice to...
> 
>   a) have a machine die with warning like that
>   b) have a "hot backup" that you can jump to immediately.
> 
>   Once I get my new machine, m450 will inherit a second hard drive, and
> have a video card upgrade.  Its 8 megabyte ATI Rage Pro (a Mach 64 chip,
> *NOT* a Rage 128) will be replaced by the 64 megabyte Radeon 7000 from
> m1800.  The rest of m1800 goes to the landfill.

You need to have computers disposed of properly.  Too much lead and crap
in them.  The local recycling depot should know what to do with them.

Lennart Sorensen
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