On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:06, hanfamily@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi All, > Last night my husband left his computer on during a storm. For some > reason it didn't trip the surge controll when the power went down. > Now it does not come up at all the cd and hardrive lights and the > fan works. I don't get any boot not even bios. The monitor is still > good as I switched it, so is the modem. Any ideas where to start > to figure out what happened? (Not that it matters for this but > it runs rh7.3 and is my gateway) > Thanks > Linda 1.) Unplug the power cable and take out the BIOS/CMOS batter for about five minutes. Replace the battery and plug in the power cable. Try booting. 2.) Unplug the HD(s), the CDROM and floppy - try booting - if successful, then plug in first the floppy and try again - then if successful, plug in the CDROM and try again - and if successful, try the HD(s) and try again. 3.) Replace the video card and try again 4.) Replace the RAM and try again. (That's how I do it for my customers) stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fortune finishes the great quotations, #2 If at first you don't succeed, think how many people you've made happy. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
