[clug] Linux Server does not want to do a POST

Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
Fri Apr 4 13:43:22 EST 2003


Paul Bryan wrote:

> This is usually the only sure way of finding the problem.
> But first, pull everything out except m/b, cpu, ram. turn
> it on. Do you get beeps? Try it again with a video card.
> What happens then? You could spend hours trying to figure
> out what might have caused the problem, but you'll never
> actually know what did until you start doing this sort of
> thing. You have to approach it with somewhat of a blank mind.
> No assumptions!

Then there's fun combination problems, such as the shonky PSU
that would brown only out when the large number of antique hard
drives crammed into the case were being hammered.

Antti



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