Hi David On Tuesday 13 May 2008, David Szakovits wrote:
i really wanted to recover my configuration files and my home directory so i put the disk into a different machine and did the fsck on it.
Always worth keeping a backup of important data - In addition, it might be an idea to print out a hard copy of the ini file.
this however went smoothly so i decided to try the drive again, in the mill. what do you know, i have bdi-4.51 running again. it hasn't caused any trouble since, so i will leave well enough alone. of course, none of this makes sense. following the video card events perhaps reseating the hard drive did the trick???
Reseating the video card and other assorted cables is not an uncommon "fix" for a number of computers. It was often the first thing the field engineers I worked with did when making an initial visit to site. Glad to hear you are up and running again. Regards, Paul.