On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: > >> Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt? > > Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or > the rescue DVD would take over. > >> Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed at the same >> time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge >> that failed so you lost both, basically. > > Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or is it > soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old.
Almost certainly no. Not unless you take the part numbers in question and hit ebay. -- :wq
