| Art Alexion on 10 Nov 2007 18:24:35 -0000 |
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I forgot to mention that this machine neither belongs to me nor the person who brought it in to me, so I can only guess the history. On Thursday, 08 November 2007 15:05, Brent Saner wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 2:04 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > I am trying to diagnose what is wrong with an older NetVista desktop that > (1) thinks it has a bad fan, and (2) can't find the OS. These are "I > refuse to boot" messages in series. > > 1. have you ever replaced the fan? I doubt it, but the fans on both the power supply and CPU are working. Are they working at the designed speed? That's what I wanted lm-sensors for. > 2. when was the last time you flashed your BIOS? Again, I am going to guess, never. > 3. is a HDD hooked up? if so, is it possibly bad? look for it in /dev in > knoppix. the controller board (the electronics on the back of the HDD) may > have shorted. Knoppix sees the HDD, but before I could try to mount it, I rebooted for some reason. This time, the bios couldn't find the HDD nor the CD-ROM. Heat issue? An emergency pushed this machine off the workbench, so I couldn't test it again after it cooled. > -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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