[SLE] 9.0 pro desktop suddenly says "40 40 40 40"

From: David T-G (davidtg-suse-linux-e_at_justpickone.org)
Date: 05/08/05

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    Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 20:27:49 -0400
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    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.

    I pulled a hard drive and tried again and got "01 01 01" instead. I
    started thinking about RAM...

    Since then, I have successfully booted from a Linspire CD (Knoppix on
    this machine is apparently unhappy; I'll figure that out later), run fsck
    on the slices and seen them happy, and even booted from my backup
    partition on the second drive. Whew; some things are OK.

    Now to get this sent and unhook and see if I can boot from my primary
    after all.

    But what does "40 40 40" mean, and what caused this?

    TIA & HANW

    :-D 

    -- 
David T-G
davidtg@justpickone.org
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