Re: [SLUG] not a linux problem

From: Joseph Burnsworth (jburnsworth@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 21:19:00 EST


I have had instances where the AGP video card was not
plugged _all_ the way in... Some you have to put a little pressure
on it until you feel it snap in there.

Just my 2 cents..

- Joe

 Linux kernel version 2.4.18
  9:19pm up 7 days, 23:37, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, A2L1 wrote:

> This is not a linux problem strictly speaking. I just
> bought a new mobo and celeron 1.7 and have a problem. How
> do I test to find out if the processor or motherboard is
> bad?
> I get no post beep and no video(to even check the bios) so
> if the thing doesnt even boot how do I know which is the
> culprit? It will power up all the HDDs and the mobo power
> light is on so I know that the power at least gets to the
> mobo,even the fan on the cpu works fine. I have used 2
> different video cards to even eliminate the prospect of a
> bad video card. Since I am not getting any sort of post
> code at all (no beeps)how do I go about finding out which
> is not working properly?
> I mean I am going to return both but I was wondering from a
> "how would you know "standpoint.
> I would assume that with a known working system you could
> just swap processors and that would be the tellall but
> assuming that there is no other system what does one test?
> I have nothing but time while I wait for the shipping back
> and forth on this setup.
>
> Thanks,
> A J
>



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