[PLUG] Bad shutdown and file system damage

[Fedor Pikus]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:38:12 -0700, Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:24, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > >From: Ovid <publiustemp-plug at yahoo.com>
> > > Yesterday, my FC2 box hung.  And hung.  And hung.  Nothing I did seemed
> > > to have any effect, even hitting the reset switch on the front.  I was
> > > eventually forced to hit the power switch.
> >
> > Impressive managing to disable the reset button.
> 
> If the reset button didn't work, then it most definitely hung at the
> hardware level, not the software level.  The most probable cause is
> overheating of some component (CPU, memory, northbridge, or something
> like that).
I've seen IDE system lock up in this way. Usually one ends up with a
new hard disk shortly after this happens. You do have backups, right?
:)

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