@walter t... thanks for the egging-on....<div><br></div><div>No one made it boot last night... I was in pyclass so I did not see how many people tried. (I only witnessed one person give it a cursory lookover.)</div><div>
<br></div><div>If anyone does have a POST HW card, I would be curious to see it what it think is wrong with the PC.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, walter park <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:waltsfo@gmail.com">waltsfo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">what a recalcitrant machine! all the more interesting.<br><br>of course you should not 'strip' it. <br>if it hasn't burned a hole in a 'bridger's need to know in the first 24 hrs, it certainly will -- with good results -- in the next few.<br>
<br>i must say, the most annoying machines are the ones that won't even give you the courtesy of a hardware burp. (reminds me of a HP laptop with manufactured-in BIOS problem that i've not yet forgiven HP for.)<br>
<br>desperate measures: anybody got a POST hw card?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 13:09, Ken Adler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken.adler@gmail.com" target="_blank">ken.adler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">I have a quad-core server (<a href="http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml" target="_blank">http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml</a> upgraded to 4 G RAM) that I am trying to refresh.<div>
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</div><div>I plugged it in and was not able to get any video .</div><div><br></div><div>So I went out and bought a new video card and plugged that in... still no video - tried both VGA and DVI. I confirmed that the monitor is working fine (plugged it into another PC and it worked)</div>
<div><br></div><div>My question is, should I just give up now and resign myself to trashing the PC?</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, if I bring it into NoiseBridge (coming in for Pyclass tonight) is there some strategy for troubleshooting/ necessitating the PC without access to video-out initially.</div>
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