• Registered: 2008-12-13
  • Posts: 1,480

Topic: Sometimes I hate computers

So I've been running a home media server for a couple years now. For a long time I was running mythtv. It did everything I wanted but didn't look that good, so I figured while I upgraded to xbmc I would switch to 9.04. At the same time I bought a 1.5TB seagate drive. It ran well for a little while but I started having some random freezes daily and had read several reports of the seagate drives going bad. So I ran gsmartctrl and severel checks were in pre-failure. So I figured I would buy a 2TB WD drive and return the seagate. After I got the WD drive I read about problems with NVIDIA cards and 9.04, turns out that was my problem, so I reinstalled to 8.10. Things have been running good for about three weeks, and I just started getting lockups again. Turns out my 3 week old WD drive is going bad now, luckily I haven't returned the seagate drive yet so most of my data is still backed up, but I'm kinda sick of dealing with all this. Maybe I'll just drop the money to buy some enterprise class drives, I'm actually sick of reinstalling for once sad

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  • From: France, but living in Prague
  • Registered: 2009-04-13
  • Posts: 222

Re: Sometimes I hate computers

"Funny"
I am facing same pbs with 1 TB external HD of Seagate, (already 2 weeks stays in full activity, never hibernates and then after 30min, is quite hot and then freeze and it even blocks PCmanFM)
and also freezes with Nvidia...
I wrote noapic option in menu.lst on kernel line, and mainly I have no freeze since I deleted in my Xorg any modification such as:
    Option      "PixmapCacheSize" "1000000"
    Option      "AllowSHMPixmaps" "0"
etc

Since I deleted it, no freeze seen except one time when laptop was on battery....
I am not using compiz effect cause I think it has also bad influence on stability of my graphical card (Ge Force 7000m)
Before even with compiz disabled, I had min one freeze a day..............

Last edited by Jdemnahouby (2009-07-29 20:48:49)

  • From: Lincoln, UK
  • Registered: 2008-11-20
  • Posts: 4,428

Re: Sometimes I hate computers

I feel for you, drive failures can seriously ruin your day, even more so these days with TB drives. It did not used to be so bad with you only had a few MB to deal with. hmm

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