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Tom Potts writes: > On Monday 02 March 2009 23:46, Julian Hall wrote: >> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > OK, I have just moved and taken my computer set-up plus about four other >> > boards I have aquired along the way. I set up the board that I was >> > using...nothing. I set up one of the other random boards and it posts but >> > doesn't load the OS so I try to hook a CD ROM up to the system and it >> > kills it....The same thing happens with another board with a different CD >> > drive as I thought it was the drive that killed it. >> > Adding a CD drive to an IDE cable shouldn't stop a Motherboard from >> > working, should it?...what's going wrong here? Ahh! I've turned into a >> > computer killer!!! >> > Jon >> When you say it won't POST, how far is it getting? Anything on screen? >> Any beeps from the system? > Definitely check for beeps - any beeps check manual. > Beeps tell man much about mobo problems > Tom te tom te tom (in a Teepee?) >> Memory counting? Recognising the hard disk >> and/or CD? Have you checked the BIOS to see if it recognises the hard >> disk that is connected? When you say 'kills it', in what manner? > Kind regards, >> Julian How! ataching speaker idea good. Jon like idea. There is one board where I can't work out where to connect it but I'll do that for the others. Good thinking Batman!...I'll have to do some downloading of manuals though. There are various stages that the boards get to. The furthest one is getting close to booting the OS but is giving me an ERROR 22 which I have asked about here before and will check over the archive to see what it was. The main problem at the moment is bacause the boards are from different times I don't know which problems are spesific to which hardware. I'll get there in the end I expect. Cheers, Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html