> Look up S.M.A.R.T., though be aware that some controllers may not > co-operate, but that tends to be things like outboard USB interfaces, or > RAID. Ordinary hard drives plugged straight into the motherboard are > likely to be checkable. It's the hard drive, itself, that checks its > health and produces the stats, smartctl just gives you an interface. Please see my reply to Rick. > That you ought to try rebooting using a previous kernel, and see if > problems persist. I did, and the problem showed up with all three of the latest f24 versions available in the grub menu. > Yes, an update can be more stressful than other PC activities, for > *some* users. But for other users, they're always subjecting their PC > to a heavy workload, so a prolonged update session is nothing different > from normal use. I don't understand what you're saying here. Both weekly patches went very quickly (I wish windows-7 were like that!) and with no errors reported in the output. > But what type of power supply did you put in? Did you match the wattage > your supplier said you needed, did you overcompensate by an extra 100 > watts? Did you get some generic Chinese thing, or something that had a > reputation? I did not figure out that part for myself. I got advice from a friend with decades of experience working for IBM's high performance division, and then for Cray research. The power supply is a Thermaltake TR2 600W. The system also has a Core i7-3770K @ 3.5GHz x 8, 16 GB memory, GeForce GTX 660 graphics card, an ASUS Xonar Essence STX audio card, a 2 TB hard drive, 2 blu-ray drives, keyboard, trackball, web cam (rarely plugged in), two 27-inch Dell monitors, and 2 small speakers. It's no gaming system, but a rather high-powered programming workstation by 2013 standards. Thank-you, Bill. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
