On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 19:23 +0000, andy wrote: > If I have one snag though it is this: there are occasions (irregular) > when I will eject one DVD to replace it with another, close the drawer > with the new media in it and then the system will hard freeze - the > keyboard, mouse and power buttons are all useless. I can eject the newly > inserted media but that doesn't change anything. > The only option I have is to pull the plug at the back and reboot. This > is a right royal PITA because if I am in the middle of some work, or > have some unbookmarked links open in a browser or a draft e-mail being > edited, I loose all of that work.
These kind of errors (hard freeze) are often either bugs in drivers or faulty hardware. Kind of hard to diagnose, but one way to start could be to replace the DVD reader, if possible. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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