Certain distros not booting?

[Cole Tuininga]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:59 -0400, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
> Long shot:
> 
>    I had a fan stop that I didn't notice.  The lasers in two CDROMs 
> overheated leading to deteriorating output.  The behavior was similar 
> to what you describe.  Some CD would read, others would not, but all 
> check good on an independent system.
> 
>    Swapping the CD drive is fairly quick and it would eliminate at least 
> that possibility.

In talking with the person who provided me the system, this may not be
far off track.  They are telling me that the drive is old enough that
they sometimes have trouble with CD-Rs, etc.  Yeah - I think it may be
time to retire that drive.  ;)


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