On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:23:27AM +0100, Tony Grant wrote: > The install went fine up till the end where it hung on "finishing..." > (as the install was done in French I don't have the english text). The > only issue was the video card wasn't recognised so vesa driver was used. That is correct > OK so reset and... nothing. No BIOS screen, no hard disk activity. The > only things showing any life were the two CD-ROM drives which were > getting power. > > Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead. > > Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during install" TM? Try unplugging the IDE disks see what it does. Some K6 BIOSes will choke with large hard disks (>32G), and sometimes it matters whether there is a partition table present or not . You hang sounds a bit early for that however
