After all this, good thing the fix was free

Sysadmin pilot fish Gets a call from one of his one-level support techs. Fish, "says that a PC is the only boot on a screen that displays a series of zeros that flash in sequence and then move the screen every few seconds," he says.

"I suggest that it is probably a problem with the hard and suggest running a Linux boot disk to repair it".

Tech invokes a little later: the hard disk and memory, then check out the video must be integrated on the motherboard, you say.

It takes the emails from different vendors to find the part to this ageing PC, but the motherboard is finally ordered, delivered and installed by tech--and doesn't solve the problem.

Probably the processor, so tech suggests; have had some peaks in this site.

The processor is ordered and installed--and the problem is not resolved yet.

Maybe you should double check the hard disk, suggest fish. A few hours later, he receives a call back from tech: "you know what, I think there is something wrong with this hard drive".

Fish sighs, "technology checks the disk with a Linux boot disk and an XP repair installation finally solves the problem. The technology is calling me back and forwards its success.

"I replied," A Linux boot disk? You don't say. Which Linux boot disk you try, initially, rental or Ultimate? ' "Oh, well, it doesn't look like the hard drive to me so that I didn't think I had to run it. '"

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