Any suggestions, please?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 17:02, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> This morning (many hours ago now) I booted up my system, had some
> upgrades to 10.04.1 done (almost all to do with Firefox) and then,
> suddenly the monitor screen went black, went into "sleep" mode - and
> there were no responses from the keyboard or the mouse.
>
> Rebooting achieved nothing.
>
> While all the fans in the system (7 of them, including the CPU fan) plus
> the HDs were working/spinning, the system would not boot, and there were
> no beep(s) from the mobo to indicate what was wrong.
>
> My conclusion was that some part of the mobo was dead.
>
> But what?
>
> Could anyone please offer suggestions as to what I could check to see
> which part of the mobo has 'died'?
>
> (( have transferred my main components to another chassis/mobo to keep
> going, which I am now doing, but the downgrade from 3200+ Athlon XP with
> 1.5GB of RAM to a 1200+ XP with 500MB of RAM is just kinda difficult to
> adjust to :-) - not impossible, mind you, but somewhat disorientating.
> [For the first time I see that my Swap file is being used! :-) .]
>
> (Actually, without prejudice, I see no real degradation of performance
> by Ubuntu 10.04.1 provided that I only have one or two main applications
> running.)
>
> (Oh, I am running, and have run, a 32-bit system with ATA IDE drives - a
> system which I built myself.
>
> Any ideas, folks?
>
> BC
>

Disconnect all PCI cards (modems, NICs, discrete graphics card if you
have on-board) and whatnot, then try to boot from an optical drive
(LiveCD). Disable things in the BIOS (such as onboard NIC). If that
doesn't work, try a different drive in a different motherboard
IDE/SATA port with a different cable.

If that doesn't work, then you are at the "throw parts at it" stage:
start with the PSU and graphics card (assuming no on-board) as that
should really be all that's currently connected at this stage.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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