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
On Saturday 23 August 2008 07:19, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 11:14 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
just for the record --- the problem turned out to be a rather rare
situation of both hard drive *and* dvd drive failing simoultaneously
Two things dying at the same time makes me
On Monday 18 August 2008 12:47, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
This is a rather old Celeron machine, 433 MHz with 320 MB ram. It was
working properly up to a couple of days ago, when the first hd started
dying out (which is understandable, given its age and the conditions it's
in).
But then at some
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:14, Ed Greshko wrote:
What motherboard are you talking about...and what time frame are you
certain was the time when it was manufactured with faulty capacitors?
What I know is not precisely for one specific type of motherboard. It's just
On Monday 18 August 2008 13:24, Alan Cox wrote:
What could fail and induce such behavior? I have never seen anything
similar before. A computer usually does boot completely or does not boot
at all. I've never seen it boot halfway and then lock up.
Age, component failure , corrosion, static
On Monday 18 August 2008 14:07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What could fail and induce such behavior?
Another thing to do is check the motherboard carefully for burnt parts
or leaky capacitors.
Yeah, I know of the
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 08:27 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Monday 18 August 2008 14:07, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What could fail and induce such behavior?
Another thing to do is check the motherboard carefully for burnt parts
or leaky
Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yeah, I know of the low-quality-capacitors-in-the-old-motherboards problem.
But would the bios setup run with no problems with capacitors on the
motherboard faulty? I'll look into it, but somehow I doubt that they are the
cause. It is some part of
This is a rather old Celeron machine, 433 MHz with 320 MB ram. It was working
properly up to a couple of days ago, when the first hd started dying out
(which is understandable, given its age and the conditions it's in).
But then at some point the computer stopped booting completely --- bios
What could fail and induce such behavior? I have never seen anything similar
before. A computer usually does boot completely or does not boot at all. I've
never seen it boot halfway and then lock up.
Age, component failure , corrosion, static damage finally killing a
device, fan failure ...
Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What could fail and induce such behavior?
In addition to what Alan Cox already mentioned, you might also want to
find a spare power supply and plug that in temporarily. Capacitors to
get old, dry out, etc. You might get lucky and it could just be
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