On Tuesday 23 November 2004 6:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote:
> I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo??
Lol, motherboard. It can get even more confusing if you switch to a Mac
list... then MB, Motherboard, Mobo, AND LB, LoBo, "Logic Board" are all used
interchangeably ;-).
Chee
Motherboard
^^^^
MoBo
Me
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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 06:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote:
> At 06:40 PM 11/23/04 +, you wrote:
> >FWIW I have Asus mobos on two boxes, one of which has onboard
> >ethernet. It is
> >recognised and runs without problems.
>
> I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo??
>
> >Anne
>
> Bi
At 06:40 PM 11/23/04 +, you wrote:
FWIW I have Asus mobos on two boxes, one of which has onboard
ethernet. It is
recognised and runs without problems.
I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo??
Anne
Bill
Want to buy your Pack
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 12:06 pm, Lanman wrote:
> Aron Smith wrote:
> > I'm having a similar problem except that the box *had* mandrake 10.0 on
> > it I reformatted the drive (don't ask) and tried to install 10.1 the
> > install terminatesafter i hit enter to install also i lose any input to
>
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On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 20:06, Lanman wrote:
> Aron Smith wrote:
> > I'm having a similar problem except that the box *had* mandrake 10.0 on
> > it I reformatted the drive (don't ask) and tried to install 10.1 the
> > install terminatesafter i hit enter
Aron Smith wrote:
I'm having a similar problem except that the box *had* mandrake 10.0 on it I
reformatted the drive (don't ask) and tried to install 10.1 the install
terminatesafter i hit enter to install also i lose any input to the screen
Aron, The problem is connected to Plug'n'Pray/APIC/ACPI
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On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 18:37, Eric Scott wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:58 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> > In fact, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Asus that was in
> > the news recently for breaking the ethernet on their motherboa
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:58 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> In fact, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Asus that was in the
> news recently for breaking the ethernet on their motherboards in a way that
> makes it only work with Windoze but not with Linux, and responding to
> complaint
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 08:29 am, Lanman wrote:
> Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> > On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote:
> >>Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>>Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the
> >>>BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote:
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
...
Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the
BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS/motherboard/drive
combination) that's preventing writing to the MBR. Perhaps someth
On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote:
> Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
...
> > Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the
> > BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS/motherboard/drive
> > combination) that's preventing writing to the MBR. Perhaps something
> > in
H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
Heh, try formating and writing to MBR whilst having the thing perched on the
top story window-sill...It's been known too work;)
"A:\Format C: /fear /s" ?
OK, Will give it a try. Ya never know! Might be a hidden switch?
--
Lanman
Registered Linux User #190712
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On Monday 22 November 2004 23:38, Lanman wrote:
> Either it's a jumper, it was never there in the first place or Asus
> forgot to include it in subsequent BIOS updates. As previously
> mentioned, I am keeping a large hammer nearby in case of emergency or
> extreme frustration.
Heh, try formating a
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
On November 20, 2004 08:02, Lanman wrote:
...
But the fact that something is preventing me from writing to the MBR has
me very curious too. This is the first time I've ever seen this at all
in about 10 years, and re-doing the BIOS would usually kill any TSR or
other virus em
On November 20, 2004 08:02, Lanman wrote:
...
> But the fact that something is preventing me from writing to the MBR has
> me very curious too. This is the first time I've ever seen this at all
> in about 10 years, and re-doing the BIOS would usually kill any TSR or
> other virus embedded onto the
Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote:
The only reason that I'm suspecting the motherboard is because the very
first drive I had in this system ended up with disk errors, and then
this problem appeared. The M/Board doesn't have any mention of BIOS
anti-virus p
On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote:
> The only reason that I'm suspecting the motherboard is because the very
> first drive I had in this system ended up with disk errors, and then
> this problem appeared. The M/Board doesn't have any mention of BIOS
> anti-virus protection which h
Thanks everyone for your responses and suggestions so far. I started by
taking Fajar's advice about taking a break - and several hours of sleep,
one pot of coffee, half a pack of cigarettes and two downloads later,
I'm back.
I downloaded UltimateBootCD and BootIT and will be trying those later
On Saturday 20 November 2004 08:31 am, Lanman wrote:
> Stephen Kühn wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:52, Lanman wrote:
> >>Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
> >>list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written
> >>a boot-sector virus and i
On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:52, Lanman wrote:
> Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
> list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written
> a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's.
> and they haven't helped at
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 22:17 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> Lanman wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Mikkel; Fdisk showed that the first partition (/dev/hda1) was the boot
> > partition and everything looked fine. This is very strange since the
> > system was fine before I had
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Lanman wrote:
>>
>
> Mikkel; Fdisk showed that the first partition (/dev/hda1) was the boot
> partition and everything looked fine. This is very strange since the
> system was fine before I had to change the drive. Even after updating
> the BIOS a few times the prob
On Friday 19 November 2004 06:08 pm, Lanman wrote:
> Aron Smith wrote:
> > On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >>On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote:
> That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot
> partition "ACTIVE' using Par
Bootdisk.com, download a win98 boot disk. Get your self a blank floppy, execute the image which will write to the floppy, it should have fdisk on it, from the command line type fdisk /mbr
That will wipe the mbrStephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:31, Lanman wrote:
> Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition Magic, so I don't have it
> lying around to try your suggestion. It would be nice if there was a
> utility I could use to completely reformat or erase the MBR, especially
> if it actually worked! None of t
Aron Smith wrote:
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote:
That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot
partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all
downhill (er, uphill)
--
stephen ku
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:38 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote:
> > > That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot
> > > partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all
> > > downhill (er, uphill)
> > >
> > >
On Friday 19 November 2004 05:31 pm, Lanman wrote:
> > That just happened to me (on 10.0 though) and I had to make the /boot
> > partition "ACTIVE' using Partition Magic...after that, it was all
> > downhill (er, uphill)
> >
> > --
> > stephen kuhn
>
> Thanks Stephen but I've never used Partition M
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:52, Lanman wrote:
Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written
a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's.
One of my systems ha
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Lanman wrote:
Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has
written a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1
Community CD's.
One of my systems has an Asus P4S800 moth
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:52, Lanman wrote:
> Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
> list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written
> a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's.
>
> One of my systems has an Asus
Lanman wrote:
Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written
a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's.
One of my systems has an Asus P4S800 motherboard running an Intel
P4
Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the
list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written
a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's.
One of my systems has an Asus P4S800 motherboard running an Intel
P4-2.8Ghz HT CPU
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