Re: hard drive access
hi ya
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> disagreed with me and referred me to the motherboard manufacturer (Biostar).
:-)
> Their tech support said that the beep code indicated either a dead CPU or a
> corrupted BIOS. After I explained that removing the RAM, CPU and video card
> resulted in exactly the same beeping
how can it beep without the cpu ..
i say you have a bad cpu ( overheated ?? ) or fan slowed down enough that
it allows the cpu to run hotter than it should be
- open the case ... and use a standard $20 household fan to blow
on the cpu and see if it boots/runs
, the tech said he was reasonably certain
> it was the BIOS.
bios does not die too often if ever .. unless you're flashing the sucker
> However, there is no guarantee that the new BIOS will fix the problem, leaving
> with the possibility of getting a new mother board. The problem I have is that
> though my system performs regular backups (every morning @ 0200)
your backups is also questionable ... since it could have been backing up
corrupt files
- hopefully ou have been saving your data in different files
instead of overwritting "yesterday's" or last week's backups
> to my file
> two before it is back up and running. The real problem is that my system has
> two hard drives in RAID1 (software) with LVM on top of that. The question is:
> How do I safely access the data?
my silly question ... why can you move the 2 disks to a different
motherboard ( ycu can get um for free or up to $1000 or more for
motherboards depending on how pick you are about which motherboard )
if the lvm drives is somehow locked to the motherboard, that'd suck
c ya
alvin
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