On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:59:14PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +0000, andy wrote:
If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular)
when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer
with the new media in it and then the system will hard freeze - the
keyboard, mouse and power buttons are all useless. I can eject the newly
inserted media but that doesn't change anything.
The only option I have is to pull the plug at the back and reboot. This
is a right royal PITA because if I am in the middle of some work, or
have some unbookmarked links open in a browser or a draft e-mail being
edited, I loose all of that work.
These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or
faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way to start could be
to replace the DVD reader, if possible.
I was thinking, but didn't say this. To elaborate, a bad/failing
solder or wire could be getting displaced enough by the action of
closing the drive resulting in a short and a hard freeze.
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