That could well be what happened. We did have an electrician out here a
few days before this happened for a completely different problem with
the room next to where the computer is. It may have been that for all I
know. Anyway it is fixed and so is the new computer. Again thanks for
all the help.
On 3/28/21 7:02 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
Hi Maureen there was a flap a few years back about exploding
capacitors on motherboards. But that can also be caused by power
surges or misbehaving AC sources. You have a UPS so it filters the
line power at least a bit, maybe hopefully. GDay
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 4:46 PM Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net
<mailto:silver...@verizon.net>> wrote:
So I opened up the machine to take out the old hard drive and
found that two spots on the motherboard with burnt looking. So I
got a new computer and all is back up and working. I am on an ups
box so I don't understand how this happened. Any way
Thank you for all your helping this old lady.
Maureen
On 3/27/21 6:05 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
If you have a spare hard drive, at this point I would swap it in
and reinstall. See how that goes.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 2:02 AM Maureen L Thomas
<silver...@verizon.net <mailto:silver...@verizon.net>> wrote:
So I did download your suggestion and it worked. It went all
the way
through re-install with no problems. On booting for the
first time I
got the message fsckd-cancel-msg: Press ctrl+C to cancel all
filesystem
checks in progrees. Well it freezes and nothing is
happening. It just
stay that way indefinitely. No file checks and unable to use
ctrl+C
does not work. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Maureen
On 3/26/21 1:22 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:59:04 -0400
> Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net
<mailto:silver...@verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>> So I decided to re-install debian 10.
>> While doing so I get to the part about the entering the
needed rtl
>> files which I have on DVD and on USB. I tried both but
neither of
>> them would work. I cannot get it to even come up to a
command line
>> to do dmesg and see what the real problem may be.
> I take it that by "rtl files" you mean RealTek firmware
blobs for
> RealTek devices.
>
> What I found was that Bullseye (Debian 11) wants the
firmware .deb
> package, not the extracted firmware files. This may or may
not work on
> Buster (Debian 10). Also it wants the file in the root
directory of the
> USB device.
>
> You may be able to install without them if you don't need
the interface
> they support to install. You would need some other
interface either
> during installation, or shortly after installation to bring the
> firmware package in.
>
> Probably the easiest option: you might try the unofficial
with-firmware
> installation images. Depending on your requirements, you
should be able
> to drill down from this page:
>
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/
<https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/>
>
