🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:11:28 GMT, Paul Richards (Pauldoo) 
<pauldoo@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> And now my new 30 gig IBM drive is starting to show signs of
>it being goosed..  The drives were all quite new when they broke, and
>I'm suspecting that it could be due to overheating..?

I wouldn't really think so... everything should be fine.. Try and sort the 
cables out in the PC and make sure the fan is taking in air and breathing
out warm air at the bottom front of the PC. Maybe your best bet is to get
another fan to keep the PC cool?

>I try to install Win98SE to the spare 4 gig space..  I make a nice FAT32
>partition for it, and the setup fails after the first reboot claiming
>that explorer.exe is corrupt...  If I copy the CD to the C: first, then
>install, it complains that the CAB's are corrupt.  I tried just
>allocating 3 gig, and leaving a 1gig gap at the start, but that came up
>with similar errors...

That is really weird... You probably got a virus or your hdd having bad blocks?

>So anyway...  Does this sound like a heating problem?  If so, do you
>recommend getting a new case (and therefor mobo), or can I help cooling
>with some other imaginitive methods?  :)

Get a new case to reduce the cooling and more space. Older cases can be quite
cramp inside and not fit for newer motherboards since they 'breathe' out more
heat and you need to get rid of it.

>Oh, and is the 30gigger likely to fix itself?  Or will it be permanently
>damaged now?..

Who knows? do a e2fsck (that right guys?) on the linux partition and scandisk 
for windows. 

>The system otherwise is perfectly stable, Quake3 will play for hours,
>and virtually never crashes.  I manage uptimes of days at a time
>easily..  I only reboot when trying to fix windows.

Grrr.. want to get quake 3 for linux.. bit costly at the moment and I don't
have a decent card.....

-- 

Craig

http://www.linux2k.freeserve.co.uk