I went out on a call from a woman who was very angry, her computer had begun misbehaving and making weird noise and when she rebooted it would not boot any longer. We had already been out to fix a network problem which amounted to her having kicked a cord loose from the switch under her desk, she had complained about that charge. We warned her of the charge again to come out...when I got there she was exasperated and angry. I moved a folder that had been depressing some keyboard keys and the computer booted fine. Couple days ago I bought two 1 terabyte drives (WD to those who gave their two cents, off the final advice of the wholesaler) and brought them home to back everything I own up. Short version, at one point pulling drives, putting in new drives, my computer wouldn't boot suddenly. In a panic I thought was everything gone? Was my motherboard bad? Bad memory, computer wouldn't post with NO drives installed..what now? Stupid...I had left my ipod nano plugged in and the system was trying to boot from it. Those two or three minutes though were a killer :p
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Richard P. <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for letting us know so we don't get caught in the similar fix. > The same thing could easily happen to my keyboard and it could easily > be missed except for the on-screen display indication anytime the > controls are changed. Sounds like you need a bigger desk :-)) > > Richard P. > > > >> This is an Intel D975XBX board that I have had no problems with > >> in the past. I am sure I am doing something stupid here. > > > > Found the problem, thanks. > > > > I'm kind of embarassed to report the cause. > > > > The keyboard has a row of buttons across the top, two of them, > > dead center, are a volume control. > > > > My phone was sitting on them. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
