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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