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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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" <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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" <bmike1@gmail.com> 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~(-:

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