[Noisebridge-discuss] To hack or to punt? Trying to revive my Quad-core server.

[Ken Adler]

Its sitting on the table at NoiseBridge now with a sign that says "Make it
Boot, Win a 6-pack"

basically... I'm not even seeing BIOS... even though the drives DVD spins
up, the fans are whirling and the ethernet light is going blinky.

Probably just going to end up striping it for parts.. but thought I would
put out the beer-based challenge tonight :-)

Ken

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com> wrote:

> do you know that the video card is fully compatible ?
>
> remote access working ?
> ping ? ssh ? ftp ? network shares ? remote desktop client (I forget
> the generic name for this) ?
>
> you can get organized help either on Wed eve from linux group or Tues,
> Friday afternoons.
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ken Adler <ken.adler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a quad-core server
> > (http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml  upgraded
> to 4
> > G RAM) that I am trying to refresh.
> > I plugged it in and was not able to get any video .
> > 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)
> > My question is, should I just give up now and resign myself to trashing
> the
> > PC?
> > 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.
> > Thoughts?
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> > Ken Adler
> > 510-290-5806 (cell)
> > Ken at adler.net
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Ken Adler
510-290-5806 (cell)
Ken at adler.net
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