On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Kyle Spaans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3lucid@gmail.com">3lucid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The symptoms vary from having nothing on the monitor, to booting hanging<br>
> at "scanning for USB devices" (before trying to read the disk), to booting<br>
> and working well only to hang up suddenly after a few minutes.<br>
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</div>In case you haven't considered it yet, it may be a heat issue?<br></blockquote></div><br>Good guess, but I don't think this is the case. Here is why ...<br><br clear="all">It does not always start from when it is cold. The one time it started<br>
and ran for a few minutes was when I took it upstairs, then found <br>that the disk is being read (something it did not do since the problem<br>started) and took it downstairs again and it ran for a little while before <br>
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