Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 8/2/2017 12:47 PM, Paul wrote:
Good Guy wrote:
On 02/08/2017 10:15, wrote:
Anyway - can anyone suggest somethng he can try in order to make it
usable again?


These days you need to have a degree in rocket science to repair a
computer!!.

Agreed. The OS I'm typing this in, still isn't "fixed". And I've
been working on an intermittent problem with it for more than a year.

1) Glimmer of hope when RAM tested bad. But problem re-appeared a
number of days after the new RAM was installed. RAM still tests good.

2) Yes, the OS has been reinstalled already.

The worst case symptom, is my OS would crash, after reading
around 15GB of data from the hard drive. Making operation
a bit like spinning a roulette wheel. Today, I can read
more data than that, without a problem. But I don't really
think my symptoms have gone away. It'll come back.
It always comes back. It's just a matter of time.

Paul

I hope you have it all backed up


There are plenty of backups here. I got another 4TB 5900RPM Seagate
drive for $164 and half-filled it just doing OS partition backups.
At least 500GB of that is VMs.

Paul