Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, Have you looked in /var/log/messages to see if something went bang and left a suicide note? Cheers, Paul. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: "Stephen Rowles" Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:41:23 To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshir

Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Rowles
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:34 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Slightly OT, except for the fact that the machine is running Fedora 10. >> >> My machine powers on and boots into grub just fine, however as soon as I >> select the kernel to boot the machine continues to a blinking cursor

Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread The Holy ettlz
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:34 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > Hi all, > > Slightly OT, except for the fact that the machine is running Fedora 10. > > My machine powers on and boots into grub just fine, however as soon as I > select the kernel to boot the machine continues to a blinking cursor > befo

Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Rowles
> 2009/6/30 Steve Kemp : >> On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 17:34:48 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: >> >>> I'm wondering if it might be a faulty PSU? >> >>  I think its a tie between PSU and overheating. >> >>> It behaves the same regardless of which kernel I select so I don't >>> think >>> it is related to a

Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2009/6/30 Steve Kemp : > On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 17:34:48 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > >> I'm wondering if it might be a faulty PSU? > >  I think its a tie between PSU and overheating. > >> It behaves the same regardless of which kernel I select so I don't think >> it is related to any updates, ty

[Hampshire] [OT] Wanted Old Sodimms

2009-06-30 Thread Tim
I am after a pair of 128mb SODIMM's for an old Toshiba Laptop P4290, my son would be eternally grateful if anybody can help out as he can have the laptop to play with then. Regards Tim -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 17:34:48 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote: > I'm wondering if it might be a faulty PSU? I think its a tie between PSU and overheating. > It behaves the same regardless of which kernel I select so I don't think > it is related to any updates, typical to get a hardware failure

[Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Rowles
Hi all, Slightly OT, except for the fact that the machine is running Fedora 10. My machine powers on and boots into grub just fine, however as soon as I select the kernel to boot the machine continues to a blinking cursor before the whole machine simple shuts down. I'm wondering if it might be a

Re: [Hampshire] is it time to get rid of my advansys scsi controller?

2009-06-30 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 09:06:28 john lewis wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:06:14 +0100 > > Lisi wrote: > > And the most recent installation of Lenny I did (last week) had > > neither K3b nor CUPS there by default in the Desktop packages. This > > is the first time that this has happened to me.

Re: [Hampshire] is it time to get rid of my advansys scsi controller?

2009-06-30 Thread john lewis
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:06:14 +0100 Lisi wrote: > And the most recent installation of Lenny I did (last week) had > neither K3b nor CUPS there by default in the Desktop packages. This > is the first time that this has happened to me. There was no other > CD burner so far as I could see. Hi Lisi

[Hampshire] Jamies (was: Re: [ADMIN] July Meeting)

2009-06-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
john wrote: > I have looked at what jamies sell. Myself I find the computers they sell > overpriced. If I find this how many others find this? > I enquired after some PC100 memory and was quoted pretty much the price of buying it new from ebuyer. The slight difference in my favour was not en