Re: ack! help!!!! something went dreadfully wrong!

thanks. =)

yes, but i can't get a hard drive right now because it's late and i probably 
am going out tomorrow night and stuff (and seeing lots of friends this 
weekend too) so i might have to put it off till monday i think. either way, 
my system is up for now. it appears stable and works very well as far as i 
can see. i have all the nice little addons like bouncing cursors when i open 
an app, new themes, and stuff like that. so it appears to work fine and *no* 
error messages whatsoever.

here is what i think happened:

i think that when i upgraded last night, i had such an old kernel that it must 
have upgraded some drivers i couldn't use.

when i installed kde last night, it installed them using those drivers and 
thus, the problem emerged. i think that it may not be the hard drive at all.

after i installed the new kernel today, it still wouldn't work, but that's 
because it was using the *old* configs. when i uninstalled kde completely, 
and reinstalled it from scratch, it fixed itself because the new drivers were 
put in place with the new kernel (2.4.23 on debian) and thus, the problem was 
solved. that's the only reason i can think of that it's running right now. if 
it really was the hard drive, it wouldn't be running and it would still give 
me errors, right? i mean i didn't actually *do* anything other than upgrade 
the kernel and reinstall from scratch. that wouldn't fix a hardware error 
like that, would it?

anyway, tell me what you think? does my theory make sense? if it does, then it 
isn't a hardware problem like i thought it might not be =)

sav.