On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, ew wrote:
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
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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
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Strangely enough, there are no post code beeps at all.
It only beeps when abutton is held down, and then stops when the button is
let up. After a while it stops doing even that, but the blinking
cursor in the upper left screen corner remains. Then after a few minutes,
it turns itself off.
The only response from any key is continuous short loud beeps.
Next I'm going to open it up and see if I can see anything wrong.
I noticed that the space bar is cracked in the middle. That must mean it
was hit pretty hard by something.
Lex
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