Not sure. If you hit esc in the splash screen you will see text. And you will see where it stopped. There are 4 processes 1. Post. This is the bios. 2. Kernel and drivers. This usually takes a few seconds 3. System Daemons. This should be quick. 4. Everything else not kernel related including the desktop.
Step 4 is probably where you are blocking. If you don't post. The issue is on the MB. Could be a plugin card or memory. If the kernel fails you will get a crash notice -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 9:49 PM Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my desktops (HP Compaq CQ5110F) briefly failed this evening, > while trying to determine why the HDD light blinks in a pattern (blip, > blip (pause) blip) several times, with pops coming from the speakers at > the exact same time, before the BIOS screen appears when it's powered on > every time. I determined that it was the PCI-E x16 Radeon video card I > installed, am using that because nouveau doesn't seem to want to play > nice with Linux. During the investigative phase before the system > failed, from the BIOS, I ran both the short and extended SMART tests on > the HDD and they completed without any errors. > > After removing and re-seating everything not fastened down > (video/network/RAM) and resetting the CMOS, the system came back up but > (l)ubuntu wouldn't fully boot up, there was some slow HDD activity, but > it did not get past the splash screen after 15 minutes. I then > reinstalled (l)ubuntu, which took no more than 10 minutes and it now > fully boots up again. > > I ruled out everything else, but am curious as to whether there might be > a particular reason why the HDD light blinks like this with the presence > of the video card. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > If it doesn't work right out of the box, they're in the wrong business. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
