[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware failure
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Tue Jul 24 01:31:13 UTC 2007
Eric Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the thoughts guys. I reset the BIOS to factory defaults and
> then changed the few things I knew I needed back. No luck. I also had
> no luck booting from the Fedora Live CD. I'm at a complete loss here.
> Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I can't even find
> an online retailer that has any stock of these old socket a mobos for a
> reasonable price. I'm an old PC parts hog, so throwing out my (i think)
> perfectly fine athlon 2500 cpu just isn't sitting well right now.
How did you boot in order to run the memtest? That shows something is
working.
If you're booting from a floppy for memtest, you might have problems
with your IDE bus. Does your setup BIOS properly show the drives? Check
cables, then check them again.
I've seen socket A mobos for around $30, don't know if you consider that
"reasonable", but considering you can buy an entire machine for under
$100 it might not be.
BEWW
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