Give us the details on the CPU. Maybe somebody has one you can swap at a future meeting.
John Hebert --- Kory Wnuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a conundrum that dates back to earlier this > year. I had some trouble booting my computer (i.e., > it would not boot - and there was no video signal > out). After going back and forth with the > motherboard > manufacturer (looking at this and checking that), > the > motherboard was replaced. > > Happy to have something I would expect to work, I > installed the new motherboard. However, I cannot > get > the stinking thing to boot. I have tried swapping > out > peripherals, memory and whatnot (I don't have a > spare > CPU). I am getting a video signal out. It appears > that everything has been dectected correctly, from > the > install RAM to my HD size. When the OS goes to load > everything stops, even when failsafe mode is > selected. > > I thought perhaps I had a bad boot sector or > something, and decided to reinstall. When I boot > from > either the CD or floppy, I experience the sames as > when trying to boot from the HD. Things look like > they are ready to load linux and then just stop. > > I am dealing with an AMD XP 2000+ system (Mandrake > 8.0)with an Epox EP-8HKA+ MB, 1 GB RAM, 15 GB > Western > Digital HD, ATI Raedon 7500 64 MB, generic CDROM > drive, generic 3.5" floppy, and generic NIC. > > The system ran well before it crapped out last > April. > Does anyone have any idea as to what I might try to > get this thing operational. Thanks. > > -K > > > ===== > Failure is NOT an option! That is why I use > Linux... > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! News - Today's headlines > http://news.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com
