I don't think the loss of power damaged anything. It wasn't a power surge or anything, the plug just got mistakenly pulled while I was running the install. No hardware changes. I hadn't opened the case prior to this happening. After the fact, I have opened it to check to make sure all the cables are firmly attached and nothing came loose. Couldn't find any problems. My thoughts are that it could have caused a problem with the harddrive since it was reformatting it during the install, but I would think that I could still boot from the live CD even if there was a HD problem. I also thought there could be some kind of bios problem since it won't even make it to the live cd, but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot that and the Dell info I found talks about flashing the bios via floppy disk and this is the only computer I have w/ a floppy.
On Dec 24, 6:33 pm, wirechief <[email protected]> wrote: > aside from the power damagiing your computer, i would ask if you made > any hardware changes recently like adding or changing > memory ? It sounds like a hardware failure. > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to instal gOS on a 5 year old Dell Desktop. During > > the install, the computer lost power and now, I can't get it to boot > > at all. When it starts to boot, I see the Dell screen flash and I can > > hit F2 or F12 to change settings, but after that, it beeps 2x's and > > says "strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility" Neither one seem > > to help. I tried rebooting from the live cd and it won't boot from > > there even though it would boot from there originally. I also tried > > booting from the Windows XP cd to see if it died during the > > repartitioning, and it would not boot from there either. Any help > > would be appreciated. > > -- > Reach out and share life, care for others, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
