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

[Ken Adler]

@walter  t... thanks for the egging-on....

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.)

If anyone does have a POST HW card, I would be curious to see it what it
think is wrong with the PC.

Ken

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, walter park <waltsfo at gmail.com> wrote:

> what a recalcitrant machine!  all the more interesting.
>
> of course you should not 'strip' it.
> 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.
>
> 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.)
>
> desperate measures:  anybody got a POST hw card?
>
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> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 13:09, 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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