Epic Fail
by Mez on Nov.03, 2008, under Personal
So, after finding out that that nasty noise my PC’s been making was actually a hard drive failing (I knew it was, but thought I’d fix it now, while I’m doing my refresher) So, after a few failed install attempts with lovely kernel messages telling me that the disk was failing horribly, I thought, ok, I’ll shut down, unplug the hard drive, and get on without it.
Ha, if only I were so lucky. Seems that for some reason, my PC, having had 2 hard drives connected to the primary IDE channel for the last… oh, 4 years? doesn’t like it – and now, my primary IDE channel is unusable (or at least, nothing is being detected from it 
)
So, that leaves me with 1 hard drive…. at least it’s the bigger of the three. However, my PSU has also developed a high pitched squealing noise, which to be quite honest, sounds dangerous.
So, it’s with some regret that I say that, I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I still, however, have my eeePC available, which is a blessing, as it means I’ll still be able to surf and access email.
However, with apathy out of action, and with christmas around the corner, and lots of bills to pay, it’s unlikely to be until around March that I have enough in the coffers to pay for a replacement.
Thank god for the eeePC
November 3rd, 2008 on 9:49 pm
High noises from the PSU usally mean the capacitors are damaged…
November 3rd, 2008 on 9:50 pm
Well, switching power supplies have a working frequency in the range of maybe 10 to 200 kHz. Ideally it should be outside the audible spectrum. It’s not necessarily a sign of hardware failure to hear high-pitched noise coming out of it – if you leave out failure to not annoy you
That said, buying a high quality / high efficiency PSU is a good investment.
November 3rd, 2008 on 9:53 pm
You don’t per chance have a hard drive that has a “Master” settting and a “single” setting, do you? Sometimes, hard drives like that actually require you to tell them they’re the only drive on the channel, as opposed to the Master on the channel.
November 3rd, 2008 on 9:56 pm
Some hard drives have different jumper settings for “Master” and “Single Drive” you might want to check all your jumpers on the two “good” drives.
November 3rd, 2008 on 10:18 pm
I’ve recently lost all my data upgrading to Intrepid.
So this w/e I was left with the LiveCd only and a contract work (a website) to finish.
Nice to be said, I have been able to do that just with the live cd, using gedit and nautilus sftp capabilities. Very nice !
I have a eeepc, but the livecd felt just fine
February 4th, 2010 on 11:56 pm
Nice to be said, I have been able to do that just with the live cd, using gedit and nautilus sftp capabilities. Very nice !
I have a eeepc, but the livecd felt just fine