[ubuntu-nz] poss HD issues

[t94xr]

Wild guess here but how much are they exposed to moisture in the air, 
while they are located in the "garage"...

I personally know how moisture can turn a perfectly decent machine one 
day into a peice of junk 6months later.

Cameron W

Reinhold Pam Muller wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> need to pick your brain again
>
> Our Scout group owns 40 pc's (P4 2.4 ghz or higher / 1 gig ram /  40 
> Gig HD) - UNI hand me downs about 4 years old
> We use them once or twice a year to run a irc camp (oct - JOTI = 
> Jamboree on the internet)
> We loaded Ubuntu 7.1 initially and lately 8.04 lts
>
> In between Camps they sit in my garage - nice and dry
> Of the 40 that are in the garage i had half of them connected to an 
> outlet - but not turned on -
> eg the motherboard / bios is getting some juice - but they are def 
> shut down
> This would be the same as an ordinary user turning his pc of but 
> leaving it plugged in.
> These 20 pc's units seem to be ok and power up ok too.
> The other half of the cpu-units have not been plugged in a electric 
> socket in any shape or form, mainly cause i run out of power sockets
> Seems that some of these  pc's after having not being powered up for 
> some time actually fail to power up properly.
> eg - one i cant even see the bios/ one i can get as far as grub - but 
> no further / one just goes from power up to bios to shut down back to 
> bios and cycles endlessly like this etc/ one askes for a OS - which we 
> know is there.  One one - having used a live CD - i can not see the HD 
> via Gparted - yet the system shows 5 gb of the 40 gig HD as available
>
> Does it make a diff to the performance of a HD or indeed the whole pc 
> unit  if there is no residue current via motherboard running through 
> for some time eg months????
> If so - why??
> Why would a HD degrade if there is NO juice (standard use or residue 
> wise) getting to it?
> Or is the answer that the individual HD's  are just stuffed and on its 
> last legs and the treatment they got from us was the killer blow???
>
> Anyway it aint make much sense - so if anyone has some bright ideas - 
> i'd like to hear -
>
> Cheers
> Papabear
>
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