I'll be buying a new bios battery today, and a can of compressed air... i'll spend a hour or so taking out all the cards/ram/cables... and blowing dust off EVERYTHING....
but, the one thing arises. i dont know who made my mobo (lost manual in a flood of basement)... so how can i find out who did... and see if i can flash the bios. also, when i took the bios battery out... and rebooted... it stops on a cmos error... the first time i booted it... i did ssh in, and there were no bad characters in the ssh side of things... so im not sure what is making those char's appear. -- nathan -- web: www.wormhole5.org current: calgary, ab ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcel Lecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003 10:07 am Subject: RE: (clug-talk) NEED HELP, bad problem! > Hi Nathan, > > I haven't a chance to go over all the comments in detail so I might be > repeating things others have already proposed (in which case, sorry in > advance). > > It sounds to me like it could also be bad power. Anything chancy on > thecircuit?. Might be worth hooking up on a different circuit > before putting > the gloves on and "going in". > > I'm also always suspicious of hardware that suddenly doesn't work > after a > move. Something might have been rattled loose in transit (same > might apply > to the monitor). Try remove and reconnect all plugs connectors, > RAM, cards, > IDE cables, etc. (sounds like you've already done a lot of that > though). Try > a different monitor too (or ssh into it from elsewhere and see if > it's doing > what it should). > > hope that helps. > > Marcel > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: nathan wainwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:58 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: (clug-talk) NEED HELP, bad problem! > > > > > > okay, just recently moved... and finally got shaw cable hooked up. > > > > so today i decided to reconnect the router, and webserver.... > > > > booted up the server. > > > > the screen... while readaable... will "switch" characters at > > random... > > statically... ie... when it boots up... and does ram test... > > it spells > > things odd... but not the same everytime.... > > > > when going into linux same thing... it just over prints different > > charcters... does this mean bad bios... or what? > > > > and is there a way to fix it... im a student, so don't > > reallyhave tons > > of cash to get it fixed. > > > > course i do have two powermacs... any ideas if yellowdog > > linux will run > > apache, perl php? > > > > -- nathan > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to > which it is > addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged > information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended > recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or > take action > relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent > reply,should be deleted or destroyed. > >
