power blip causes strange problem

[dracozny]

we had a power blip yesterday and afterwords my daughters system took forever to boot, i hit reset and it did the same thing. just freezes on X startup.
I got sshd working on it which was a blessing because typing directly on her system was slow. even with X shutdown hdparam was saying 9mb in 2.4 seconds, normally it would be 130mb in 2.

at some point in the night ssh dropped out and her system was unresponsive so I just turned it off and continued to research what the heck could be going on. finally I turned it back on to check for bad segments on the drive and low and behold:

IT BOOTS NORMAL!!!!!

ok well lets check it anyways drop to init 1
fsck /dev/hda3

result all is well!

ok well back to init3

system did not like that said it cant find anything, oh i forgot to remount.
system claims it is mounted well ok
reboot

>>>>

slow as molassis again

turn it off
turn it on a few minutes later and all is well again


think the mobo is on its last leg but im not sure
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