[mdlug] Hardware diagnostic SW

[Aaron Kulkis]

Trevor Jagoda wrote:
> It's a good thing your not a doctor, sir, for your bedside manner is
> completely horrid.

If you get bonked on the back of the head, and wake up "seeing stars",
do you expect the doctor to look for eye trauma, or investigate
traumatic brain injury?

And if you insisted that an obvious symptom of TBI be investigated
as eye injury....how should your doctor respond?

Remember what I wrote in my first reply:

>>> Sorry for being sarcastic..... you just told us, your CPU is fried.

> 
> 
> Trevor
> 
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> David Lane wrote:
>>> I just dont want to throw parts at the wrong problem.
>>>
>> Your CPU fan went on the fritz...and the system starts
>> misbehaving.
>>
>> Um... what other parts do you think could have been fried
>> from a dead CPU fan?
>>
>>> David C. Lane
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com>
>>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:57:29 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Hardware diagnostic SW
>>>
>>> David Lane wrote:
>>>> It started with that Intel CPU fan.  My system shut down a few times due
>> to heat. I went and got a strapable CPU, But the damage was already done.
>> some of the system settings were threashed and in stead of going in to the
>> desktop there would be a graphic back ground and a text window would start
>> and a text window would open.  Then I would have to type "startkde" at the
>> promt then I would get a desktop.
>>>> I tryed to repair and upgrade but I always got an error, even when I
>> tryed to load windows, so in the end nothing would install on that system.
>>>
>>> Your CPU doesn't need diagnosis.. it's burned up and needs REPLACEMENT.
>>>
>>> Do you think you're going to invoke some magic command to
>>> make it avoid the Op Code(s) that don't work properly any
>>> more due to overheated logic gates that no longer function?
>>>
>>> Sorry for being sarcastic..... you just told us, your CPU is fried.