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On Monday 23 May 2005 10:01 am, Grant Sewell wrote:
When the College pay me enough to be able to run my PC(s) 24/7, then I will consider it. Until then... :D
Is it really going to increase your costs THAT much? A headless box or, if you always turn the monitor off when you leave it, a single desktop - can't be a huge drain on electricity, especially if it's fairly modern.
Check your jumper settings for cable-select settings on the hard drive(s) and change the hard drive cable. I've seen this with a damaged ribbon cable.Hmm.... damaged cable. Will take a look later. It's not going to be a C/S problem - haven't used C/S in donkeys years. Can't stand it.
:-) While you're checking the cable, blast one of those compressed air cans at the innards and check all the other connections / cables. Also, see if there's some way to check the CMOS battery condition from the BIOS or even directly.
Self-built system.
With no C/S, it's less serious but the cable could still fail. Depends how well you built it! :-)) Did you have to force or curl any cables to make them fit / reach or was there plenty of room for each one? Any second-hand cables?
Harddrive doesn't seem to disappear - indeed, it's been completely reliable since I got it, and I hope I haven't just jinxed it!
I meant it would disappear sometime hence, IF the cable was damaged - using C/S makes it a little more likely that the hard drive would suddenly vanish. Changing the jumpers to not use C/S would then make it reappear - possibly giving you a false sense of security. Not a problem with a self-build without C/S. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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