Re: hard drive going out?

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Author: keith smith
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Subject: Re: hard drive going out?
Could be a video driver and / or your video card.


 
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Keith Smith



On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:26 AM, George Toft <> wrote:

Hard drive failures usually have sound associated with them - a new brrr brrr brrr coming from the drive, and errors in /var/log/messages.  man smartctl is your friend.  You'll run something like smartctl -i /dev/sda

Regards, George Toft
On 12/30/2013 3:39 PM, Michael Havens wrote:

oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound continues as if all was well. it doesn't even miss a beat.
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>On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
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>I hsve my computer on and suddenly X crashes and on the screen there is:
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     *Pulse Audio
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and a bunch of other text scattered about the screen. Now this happened before and I think it had to do with the hard drive being bad. Does that sound right?
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