memtest would be one, and the dis tools will depend on the drive vendor. but you want to get them so you can do a low level diagnostic of the drive On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > sorry buddy. but I don't know what to do. Tell me hat programs to run. Do > I run them with hda or hda1? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Stephen wrote: > >> I have seen hard disk failures do weird things like this. I would do some >> disk checks at a hardware level ram test ect. >> On Jul 22, 2013 7:39 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: >> >>> nothing at all comes up. the cap lock light just flashes..... this ius >>> strange.... it boots now but it is giving me the errors detected >>> mesramsage.... and now I told it to fix the errors and everything boots >>> again.This is strange..... I rebooted it at least three times and each time >>> the cap lock ,light would flash. I wonder what was wrong? >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Stephen wrote: >>> >>>> Well is there a post screen? If not the the is may not be the issue. >>>> On Jul 22, 2013 6:06 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well, I'm in Florida until Thursday visiting my kids who are here for >>>>> a year or two and then they're going back to Peru. Well, I did a hard >>>>> reboot on my machine (ubuntu derivative) and now when I turn it on it >>>>> doesn't say it is panicing but the cap lock light is blinking like a panic >>>>> occured and nothing else. in other words nothing comes up on the screen, >>>>> nothing beeps, there is nothing except the blinking cap lock light. I'm >>>>> thinking I'm going to need to restore it when I get back to AZ but figured >>>>> I should ask you-all before in case you have any ideas. This is >>>>> upsetting.... I always turn it off this way and have never had this happen >>>>> before in..... gosh.... since '98, '99. Since before Red Hat became Fedora. >>>>> My first install fest was the one at Glendale Community College. When was >>>>> that? >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen