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On 03/03/2009 12:24, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Tom Potts writes: > >> On Monday 02 March 2009 23:46, Julian Hall wrote: >> >>> jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> >>>> OK, I have just moved and taken my computer set-up plus about four other >>>> boards I have aquired along the way. I set up the board that I was >>>> using...nothing. I set up one of the other random boards and it posts but >>>> doesn't load the OS so I try to hook a CD ROM up to the system and it >>>> kills it....The same thing happens with another board with a different CD >>>> drive as I thought it was the drive that killed it. >>>> Adding a CD drive to an IDE cable shouldn't stop a Motherboard from >>>> working, should it?...what's going wrong here? Ahh! I've turned into a >>>> computer killer!!! >>>> Jon >>>> >>> When you say it won't POST, how far is it getting? Anything on screen? >>> Any beeps from the system? >>> >> Definitely check for beeps - any beeps check manual. >> Beeps tell man much about mobo problems >> Tom te tom te tom (in a Teepee?) >> >>> Memory counting? Recognising the hard disk >>> and/or CD? Have you checked the BIOS to see if it recognises the hard >>> disk that is connected? When you say 'kills it', in what manner? >>> >> Kind regards, >> >>> Julian >>> > How! ataching speaker idea good. Jon like idea. > There is one board where I can't work out where to connect it but I'll do > that for the others. Good thinking Batman!...I'll have to do some > downloading of manuals though. > There are various stages that the boards get to. The furthest one is > getting close to booting the OS but is giving me an ERROR 22 which I have > asked about here before and will check over the archive to see what it was. > The main problem at the moment is bacause the boards are from different > times I don't know which problems are spesific to which hardware. > I'll get there in the end I expect. > Cheers, Jon > > Error 22 sounds like a grub error. You can get a bit more info about it here... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html