[Novalug] it stopped working (booting)

[Jon LaBadie]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:17:51PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:13:32PM -0400, Ed James wrote:
> > Jon,
> > 
> > perhaps if you remove unneeded cards and stuff from your machine
> > and reboot, the machine might boot okay.  If so, then add devices
> > back, one at a time until it breaks again.  This might give a clue
> > to the source of the problem.  Kinda sounds like a "Plug and Pray"
> > issue to me, but I'm not an expert.
> > 
> > Quoting Jon LaBadie <novalugml at jgcomp.com>:
> > >
> > >BTW what is "GSI 17" in the same message?
> 
> As to trying removing cards, that will be easy.  All that is
> in there is the WinModem card (PCI) that has been there unused
> since purchase (amazing it is not on the MB) and the Geforce 8500
> video card (PCI-E) I added two months ago.  I disabled the
> on-board video in the bios.
> 

Well, I'm typing this from the Linux partition.  As I noted, only two
cards, one the video.  I decided to leave that one in and removed the
WinModem card.  It has been in there since the box was constructed by
Compaq and has never been used.  But when I took it out the system
booted into Linux.

Certainly no big loss ;)

I'll let you know if anything changes.

jl
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