On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Luther Woodrum wrote: > It does not have a cdrom drive, so I tried booting linux from a usb dvd > drive, but nothing changes. No cdrom is ever detected nor tried. > Since it doesn't respond to f12 to change the boot menu, it would appear > to be hosed, like maybe the bios got trashed from a virus or something. > > Has anyone seen this before?
More likely a RAM error or a fan fault causing it to refuse to power up. You'll need to find the manual for it and see if you can get any codes from it. -m --
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