From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:06:58 -0500
Whatever was causing Linux to lock up has progressed to the point where the BIOS won't even run now, no ram check, no keyboard beeps, no harddrive chatter, nothing. You know, this sounds kinda like a power supply problem. Last summer, I had what I thought was a flaky hard drive, until it failed hard enough that I had to add another disk in order to have something to boot from so I could repair the root partition, and then it would not even power up (gory details at http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/linux/disk-upgrade.html#ps). The system has worked without a hitch since replacing the PS.
I had similar symptoms from a system. No BIOS messages after powerup, no signs of life period. Was convinced that it was the power supply. Even went out and bought a new power supply.
After installing the new PS there was no change.
Unplugged the power and data cables to the one remaining hard drive.
Bingo! It powered right up.
The primary drive had failed in such a way that it killed everything else. Just guessing, but think its failure caused it to draw so much current that it dragged everything else down, causing the power supply to shut down before anything else could happen.
Try disconnecting all cables to any hard disks and see what happens.
Mike
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