Did you try removing the Hard drive, then boot to USB? It my help your boot order to force USB boot.
Trying a known good stick of RAM can't Hurt. If there are two stick, try each individually. Perhaps you can get a POST Card (gives digital readout of POST codes) for the machine. I have one for MiniPCI but not for MINIPcie. You will need to know the BIOS manufacturer to decode the post code. Does it respond to alt+Ctrl+Del? Try removing as much hardware as possible, perhaps even the keyboard. Good Luck Eric On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 11:46 -0500, Luther Woodrum wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, [email protected] wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- > > > A ram error would send continuous beeps, but this only beeps when any > key is pressed, then stops beeping when the key is let up. > Lex > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment > Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal > Feb 2 - Zimbra _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal Feb 2 - Zimbra
