<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.1">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<BR>
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:44 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>
<PRE>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Farran Lee wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive failure, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Update the motherboard BIOS, and if it still won't play, swap it out for </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a spare motherboard and see if that fixes it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Of course, I'm saying this as someone aged 37 with a shed full of </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">obsolete PC spares I can delve through; the only worry being whether the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mice have eaten/pooed-on anything important (clue: never keep chicken </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">food and electronics in the same shed).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If you're 15 and have just bought your first... everything... then </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">you're probably going to have to make friends with someone who can lend </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">you a spare.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">By "spare" I mean "they won't mind if you break it". Do NOT disassemble </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">your best mate's very expensive, and only, PC and then discover that </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">your PSU subtly fries every motherboard it comes into contact with.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I recommend joining your local Linux User Group and finding someone with </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">their own shed full of spares nearby!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://lug.org.uk">http://lug.org.uk</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Andrew Oakley</FONT>
</PRE>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>
okay, will do :D<BR>
actually I don't have any friends...<BR>
<BR>
that have anywhere full of 'spare' m/bs. Weird really :/<BR>
<BR>
I'll RMA it if they'll accept, and if that doesn't work, I'll get a new one. got a separate /home partition, so if anything goes wrong, I can safely (I hope) reinstall it :D<BR>
<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD>
<BR>
===================================<BR>
Farran Lee<BR>
I'm only 15 :P
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>