[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure

[Matt Rude]

Eric Smith wrote:
> I have an old Athlon XP 2500 box that I use as one of my front ends
> that I've been having some heat issues with since I moved it into a
> new cabinet.  A couple of nights ago I decided to take it all apart,
> clean the fans, replace the thermal grease, etc to see if that would
> help at all.  After putting it all back together... the box refuses to
> boot.  It hangs at the uncompressing kernel line and with verbose on,
> at the line that says something like "Athlon Stepping 00" (sorry I
> don't have it in front of me and don't remember word for word).
> I took it all back apart, doubled checked all my work, put it back
> together and still no love.  Then I pulled an old hdd out of the
> closet with winxp on it and threw that in -- doesn't boot either.
>
> Then I started checking hardware...
> The box has 2x512 sticks of ram... i booted with each stick
> individually... no love
> I took all the "extra" hardware out left just vid card, ram, cpu... no
> love
> I took the cpu out and stuck it in an even older mobo i have laying
> around.... the board only recognized the cpu at 1100mhz.... but it
> booted fine
> I put the cpu back on the original board, booted to memtest86 from the
> fedora dvd and ran it for 12 hours with 0 errors
>
> So at this point, I'm thinking it must be mobo, although i figured
> that would have caused on error on memtest somewhere along the way? 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
Some things to try. (just guesses)
Can you boot off a LiveCD (Fedora Live, Knoppix, ...) into the gui?
Are you sure you plugged the hard drives in the same ports as they were
before you "played" with your system? (If it can't find the kernel it
mite just be looking at the wrong drive)

-matt

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