On Sunday 08 May 2005 01:27 am, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
I was working on my e-machines celeron tower when things suddenly got veeerrrrry slooowwwww... I had mouse trails (briefly) but no keyboard response, and then finally nothing. I did the five-second power key hold and rebooted ... and it came up "40 40 40 40" all down the screen. I left it off for an hour or two (though it always runs and never has a problem) with no change.
This looks like a lilo error - 40 is "seek failure" which might indicate a disk problem. The sudden slowdown might also point that way.
I pulled a hard drive and tried again and got "01 01 01" instead. I started thinking about RAM...
01 is the lilo error for "illegal command" and usually indicates that the second stage of the bootloader can't be found where lilo has been told to look. Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet