From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 07/16/2012 09:27 PM, JTJersey wrote:   
   > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:20:22 +0000, JTJersey wrote:   
   >   
   >> My daughters Mandriva 2011 system, which has been running fine for over   
   >> a year, today has developed an issue.  She jiggled the mouse to wake it   
   >> up and told me the screen looked "fuzzy" so she rebooted.  The BIOS   
   >> screen looked normal but instead of booting into Mandriva all she gets   
   >> is a screen that says "grub:" and a blinking cursor.  I'd appreciate any   
   >> suggestions for a course of action to get her system booting normally   
   >> again.   
   >   
   >   
   > After unplugging the hard drive and slaving it to another Linux system I   
   > backed up all her files prepping for a possible reinstall.  When the   
   > backups completed I put the hard drive back into her tower and it booted   
   > up just fine and has been fine through multiple on/off cycles for the   
   > last several hours.  I'm thinking possible oxidation of the contacts on   
   > the hard drive due to heat and air-conditioning cycles and simply   
   > unplugging the drive and plugging it back in restored proper   
   > connections.  Nothing else makes much sense.   
   >   
   Don't you just hate it when stuff like that happens? I had a hard drive   
   in a desktop that acted something like that once, but in my case the   
   system suddenly couldn't find the drive and refused to do much of   
   anything. Unplugging and replugging the IDE cable restored function.   
      
   That problem has plagued personal computers since the beginning. There   
   was an unofficial repair on the original Atari ST where you would hold   
   the unit about a foot off a table and drop it to reseat the chips. That   
   particular procedure isn't advisable for more modern computers, though.   
      
   TJ   
      
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