Marko Vojinovic wrote:
Ok, just for the record --- the problem turned out to be a rather rare situation of both hard drive *and* dvd drive failing simoultaneously. Once both of them were replaced, the machine came back to life. I figured this out by using Alan's approach of removing virtually everything unneccessary, and even substituting vital components with spares (dvd drive, memory and graphics card) one by one and in combinations, in order to find the failing component.
When trying to troubleshoot these recondite problems, The first step is always reseat everything that can be wiggled. That means all power connectors, RAMs (used to be chips would creep up out of the sockets, modern RAM sticks seem to have solved that), cables to drives, etc. If that didn't fix it, I used always to remove everything but keyboard, video display all RAM but minimal to boot the BIOS. If I could get past POST, then add in a boot device which for me is a floppy my friend, less complicated. If that works, then add RAM back in one bit at a time (no pun intended). If all the RAM goes back in, then add one device at a time until it starts to fail. With today's machines, that's more difficult. It's hard to take your printer port card out when it's just a piece of a chip on the motherboard. In any case, it's always best to disentangle everything as much as possible and work with the minimal configuration which can actually be expected to run (in some sense of the word). Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list