[ale] OT: Diagnosing HW problem

[Chris Fowler]

> I think you might have misunderstood me...the system itself is one I built
> over three years ago and has been rock solid the entire time.  I recently
> added the additional hard drive (which was a source of my emails last
> week), but the rebooting and freeze problems have started occurring the
> last week.  So...it's either somehow weirdly being caused by the new hard
> drive (which I can remove and still get the problems, so I doubt it) or
> it's something else.  My money is on the motherboard.
> 
When you installed the new HDD did you wear a grounding strap?