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Re: [LUG] Arghhh! I keep killing motherboards...

 

On 03/03/2009 12:24, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
>
>    
Error 22 sounds like a grub error.  You can get a bit more info about it 
here...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351

Rob


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