I run suse 10.2 and this morning for the first time ever it has failed.
On power up, the hard disk seems to run, the lights are showing on the front. The philips monitor says no signal received, which changes to cable not connected. No blue screen or anything. The system does not get far enough as to recognize the keyboard and light the LED’s.I am not a computer expert but have tried a compatible TV as monitor and it still says no signal.
I am thinking that the power unit is probably ok but suspect main board or hard disk?
Re-seat video card. If that fails, then try a different card, if you have one. Or try the video card in another system, if you can do that, to rule out a dead video card being the problem.
Thanks - I will re-seat video card. I do not have another video card.This was an Nvidea card. I will re-seat and get back later - thanks.It appears the monitor knows when it is connected but gets no signal. The boot up does ot get as far as finding the keyboard as the led do not glow and I would get this a little into bootup, when you could press esc and see what was happening.
I had a similar problem a while back and it turned out to be a motherboard failure. Luckily it was under warranty. I hope you find that a new battery is all it needs.
All your non-default bios settings will be lost, like time, date, and any changes you made to booting order or to disable on board sound or whatever. Plus any overclocking settings or changes to memory timings you may have made.
Not a huge deal, but you’ll have to reset all of that.
The bios settings are stored in memory located on the motherboard itself. Clearing the settings by removing the battery changes all settings back to default, but you don’t lose anything except the changes you made to those default settings.
After reading this you may luck out with a cmos battery but it is probably the power supply. After being in IT for so long and using computers the main thing that seems to fail most is the power supply. It is the easiest thing to skimp on for manufactures and the cheap ones fail after a while. (that is why I build my own) What sucks is often they fry the MB on the way out. There are ways to test the PS too so check that and you may get it back up and running.
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> malcolmlewis;1922771 Wrote:
>> Hi
>> The other one it to check the cmos battery it may be dead…
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>> Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
>> openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-pae
>> up 2:19, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.09
>> GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.82
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> Ah really - this battery must be 4 years old and it was very cold
> overnight… mmm interesting thought.
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> I will try that and change it - if I have one.
For a real quicky check, heat the CMOS battery to something like body temp
(not blistering hot!). I kept fighting a garage door opener the wife had
in her car until we figured out that if the car was in the garage or she
had been driving with the interior warmed up it always worked - but if it
sat out in single-digit temps for a couple of hours it wouldn’t trigger the
door. Voltages checked OK, but warming the battery fixed the problem until
I got around to picking up a new battery.
If this is the case, you’ll probably have to reset your BIOS and save it to
cmos before the machine will boot. You will need a new battery but the
machine will run until the next time the old battery gets cold.
Although have