[Leaplist] Continuing Install Troubles

[patrick]

Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> patrick wrote:
>> Robin (Bartow FL) wrote:
>>> From: patrick pberry2 at cfl.rr.com
>>>
>>>> Bruce Metcalf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It's me again. The Old Fart with the collection of Haunted Hardware.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to install Linux on one of my boxen.
>>
>> Regrets... If I knew then, at the install fest with your machine,
>> what I know now... and this might not be enough knowledge to fix your
>> systems...
>>
>> But, the weird problem I most recently had was that very new 80Gb WD
>> drive (normal IDE type) that I had put the jumper over to Single
>> Master, when it would only work if the two jumpers for FACTORY have
>> to be installed for the BIOS to actually read the thing!
> 
> Interesting, but my big system ran Kubuntu 5.10 just fine with the
> current jumper settings (until it did a nice imitation of the BSOD).
> 
> 
>> Any progress to report?
> 
> No, I've been in hospital the past two days. Perhaps tomorrow I'll be up
> to crawling under the desk again.
> 
> No worries, it was diagnostic and I came through with a clean bill of
> health and a somewhat less clean bill for payment.
> 
> Bruce
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You might be describing my experiences with 8 systems here that had
capacitor plague in the power supplies, and on the mainboards.  Lock up
in the middle of a simple action, and no apparent reason.