lotto@talcott.UUCP (Jerry Lotto) (06/15/85)
Last nite I left my PC-AT on for a 24 hour period. When I came
in to work in the morning, the fan had stopped and machine was VERY
hot (I couldn't touch the hard disk cabinet or the power supply). An
attempt to read the disk resulted in "Bad FAT 1" then a good directory
followed by a disk read error. When I shut the machine off and turned it
right back on, the fan came to life. I disassembled it and let it cool
for 2 hours and now it seems to be OK (I did a full backup immediately).
Questions: What caused the fan to cut out? What possible damage
was caused? How can I check the health of the machine beyond standard
diagnostics? Anyone else out there that has seen this?
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Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept.
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CSNET: lotto%harvard@csnet-relaysommers@topaz.ARPA (Mamaliz @ The Soup Kitchen) (06/18/85)
Are you constantly turning your AT on and off? You could be causing
the mechanical problems. I (and this is just my opinion) think
powercycling the machine regularly probably causes a lot of the disk
problems also. My AT has been powercycled maybe 10 times since November,
No disk problems, no mechanical problems - the biggest problems we have
had are a bad floppy and the terrible software.
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liz sommers
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