On Friday 07 March 2003 23:48, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >While I was pondering that, the power went out.Yup, the UPS was > > sitting on the dryer in the laundry room charging up.... > > Wait, you have to disconnect your UPS to charge it? I thought most > were designed to charge themselves, regardless of whether they were > attached to their machines or not. > > >I rebooted and the machine is hung at "Verifying DMI pool data". > > That's before it loads anything from the drive, isn't it? I'd > suspect the power outage also contained a couple of spikes, which may > have damaged your m/board. > > Go into the BIOS and tell it to "reset ESCD data", if it has one of > those under the PCI/PnP settings. That might help.
"reset ESCD data" WAS enabled in BIOS, disabling,booting then reenabling didn't help. I put an old 8 gig drive with Gentoo on it in and it boots. Yup, Fried the harddrive. SOB!! Well, back to CompUSA in the morning. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
