RE: blew it

[Kit Williams <kitric wireweb net>]

Brad,

Here is a quick question, did you unplug the floppy drive?  I know this
sounds like a dumb question but believe it or not, the floppy drive will
make the entire system unbootable if it is plugged in just a "hair" off of
where it should be.  Try this, turn the machine on and when you get no video
or hard drive sound, turn it off.  Now listen real close and see if you hear
the power supply drain of power.  It will make a humming sound.  If you hear
this, then unplug the floppy drive(power) and turn the machine back on.  If
it comes up, then you have fixed your problem.  Now, don't feel bad if that
is what it is....Many computer resellers make that mistake and end up taking
the parts they bought back saying it is a bad part when it was just a little
mistake.

Kit Williams

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Mugleston,
> Brad
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 9:54 AM
> To: RedHat
> Subject: blew it
>
>
> WOW, lots of replies, great suggestions, still not working.
>
> OK - I probably did install the IDE cable backwards on the floppy drive -
> the "red" wire isn't colored very good and I was tired (dumb excuse).
>
> This is what I did last night.
>
> 1 - checked ALL the power cables - 12V & 5V as it should be on all cables
> including those to the mother board.
>
> 2 - Quick check on the 3 fuses found on the mother board (looked like
> diodes) - direct short through them so I believe they are OK
>
> 3 - checked power on two pairs of labeled posts - one 12V the other 5V as
> labeled
>
> W/ Floppy drive and video back installed - no video displayed (tested
> monitor on another machine - works fine).   I stuck my head in the box and
> listened - no noise at all from the drive  - light only lights up
> if a disk
> is in the drive.   Monitor is NOT taken on line, even for a second.
>
> Found a jumper labeled => closed reset bios open normal (or something like
> that)  I closed the jumper and turned power on ( I guess that is
> what I was
> suppose to do) nothing different happened, removed jumper and
> booted again.
> Same old thing.  Nothing.
>
> In reply to specific questions:
>
> With video card removed - no beep code
> Tried to boot from floppy but it doesn't seem to be getting that far into
> the boot process
>
> Captain Scarlet suggested putting the simple RAM that installed with the
> BIOS back in - enlighten me because you lost me there.
>
> I've tried to boot from the CD but again it's not being accessed
> (no lights
> either and the door will not open under it's own power)
>
> I don't really want to throw it away and learn by my mistakes (so far I
> don't know what I did, so not much learning going on)
>
> OK, I think that's it. - one more thing it's an older computer
> with AMI BIOS
> dated 1995 if that helps at all.
>
>
> Brad
>
>
>
>
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