On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:43:01PM -0500, [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.
An 8-year old consumer class mobo begs replacing. I think the way to replace the southbridge chip (if that's it) is called floating point solder, or some such. Hardware fails, and just a new kernel for your present drive will get you up and running on a new board. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ [email protected] 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
