fried(?) computer hangs on boot
Hi!
My computer (running Sarge) overheated and hung the night before last.
I didn't realize why it had hung until it had been overheating for a
few hours (I went to bed, waiting for it to unhang, hence the delay),
then when I woke up I figured out why it was probably hanging and turned
it off. While it was off, I cleaned an incredible amount of dust and
cruft out of the CPU heatsink, so that explains the overheating.
Anyway, after it had cooled off thoroughly, I tried turning it back on,
and there doesn't seem to be any damage to the MB or the processor
because it'll boot, but once it gets to (and actually most of the way
through) booting runlevel 3, it just hangs. It doesn't matter what
program it's starting (I've played around with the symlinks), it just
gets to a certain point and hangs. Maybe it's a timing thing?
I'm pretty stumped by this whole thing. Is it a problem with the
processor? Or is the disk corrupted? I'm using ext3, which I know is
*less likely* to corrupt, but heat will still corrupt a journalled fs.
Do I have to just reinstall from scratch?
I'm trying to get my computer up as fast as I can because it's the
firewall/gateway for my family's LAN. At the moment I'm stuck with my
parents' Win2k computer, I moved the modem to this computer, but I want
to get it back behind a firewall ASAP.
Anyway, TIA.
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