Not really a question, or appeal for help. Just wanted to sound off about my woes.
A few days ago I was working on another computer and I had my main computer running, listening to streaming radio broadcast as I worked. All of a sudden my audio went into an endless loop and started playing the same last few seconds of the broadcast over and over. Just like when a vinyl record gets stuck in a track.
I went over to my desk, and I had no video, and the keyboard and mouse were totally unresponsive.
I had no choice but to do a hard shutdown. When I tried to restart, the power 3ED came on, and the HD LED came on but no display. Nothing.
Following my usual hardware troubleshooting protocol, I started swapping parts. First, I removed all PCI cards from the computer. Then I installed a known good video card. Still nothing. So I put my video card in another computer and it worked fine. I hooked my monitor to another computer. No problem. I also tested the power supply, which tested OK, but I swapped in a known good power supply anyway. There are no lights on the keyboard, and the light in the mouse does not light up.Both of these work fine on another computer. Tried resetting the bios, no go. Nothing worked. So I concluded my MB failed. Ordered a new MB and it came today, and after installation, still nothing. So that leaves the CPU. Got one coming
with next day shipping tomorrow. Woe is me
A few days ago I was working on another computer and I had my main computer running, listening to streaming radio broadcast as I worked. All of a sudden my audio went into an endless loop and started playing the same last few seconds of the broadcast over and over. Just like when a vinyl record gets stuck in a track.
I went over to my desk, and I had no video, and the keyboard and mouse were totally unresponsive.
I had no choice but to do a hard shutdown. When I tried to restart, the power 3ED came on, and the HD LED came on but no display. Nothing.
Following my usual hardware troubleshooting protocol, I started swapping parts. First, I removed all PCI cards from the computer. Then I installed a known good video card. Still nothing. So I put my video card in another computer and it worked fine. I hooked my monitor to another computer. No problem. I also tested the power supply, which tested OK, but I swapped in a known good power supply anyway. There are no lights on the keyboard, and the light in the mouse does not light up.Both of these work fine on another computer. Tried resetting the bios, no go. Nothing worked. So I concluded my MB failed. Ordered a new MB and it came today, and after installation, still nothing. So that leaves the CPU. Got one coming
with next day shipping tomorrow. Woe is me
but all my tty's and non Xorg looks good even managed to get xversa based parted magic live disk to display correctly. so at this point im thinking its a laptop w/ shared video its got to be my ram replace my ram w/ a stick borrowed from ms.sith laptop.. same problem! and her laptop is ok w/ my ram.. so at this point i dont' know what exactly to do ive clearly determed its an issue but why does rekonq render perfectly. it must be some kind of stuck bit (setting) for my driver. clear the bios , no better. update the bios (i was a rev behind too). but sadly i still had the same issue.. im thinking at this point something that i can fix by maybe installing xp on to the netbook .(this was all done via usb btw) . after a few attempts i managed to turn a copy of xp sp3 in to a usb stick that i could boot the installer from (a program called win2flash if anyone needs to do similar). i got the installer to boot and now idk if any of you have ever done an xp install (im guessing you prolly have) but there are two set up phases a simple gui one where you install and extract part of the os so you can run the next set up level. that "install" took literally 5 hours after formating my former '/' partition and im not kidding at all, im prolly underestmating. so set up phase two of xp is a higher gui level (this is where i expect corruption) but it not only goes quickly but the video looks fine.. Xp is installed.im thinking awesome the stuck bit is fixed lets install the driver just to be sure the card is good.. i boot xp and really fast bsod and restarts the machine(my inner penguin was smiling).. ?? i tried to boot xp a few more times but same results.. made a live kubuntu disk and my display corruption was there again. i ended up having to buy one that someone near by had w/ a broken screen swapped its mobo into mine and the problem is gone. (i have the other parts to play with too) im just wondering what would cause that.
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