Backup and wait a minute. What kind of a problem are you specifically referring to. Tell us exactly what happens and in what sircumstances if any particular ones. Greg On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi, my laptop is having intermitent hardware failure. When I used windows, > I thought it could be a bad driver. Now that I have Linux installed, I know > for sure it is hardware. Specifically, my hard drive. My question is: > since I always hear the drive power up, is it more likely to be the controler, > or could it just be the hard drive. > > When it happened this morning, I didn't have a DOS floppy with ASAP to varify > what message it displayed. I've got one now for the next time it happens. > > One other thing, after trying to boot 4 or 5 times, it came up with no > problem. This behavior is consistant any time it happens. > > Kenny > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup