[H] HP Compact DC7800 continuous beeping

2013-11-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Got a weird problem. I acquired an HP DC7800p ultra-slim tower (well, they were throwing it out). It set up fine in Linux Mint, so I lent it to our in-house contractor. He plugged in his cordless Microsoft dongle and everything was fine until the next day at startup where the system refused

Re: [H] HP Compact DC7800 continuous beeping

2013-11-29 Thread Winterlight
At 10:59 AM 11/29/2013, you wrote: Got a weird problem. I acquired an HP DC7800p ultra-slim tower (well, they were throwing it out). It set up fine in Linux Mint, so I lent it to our in-house contractor. He plugged in his cordless Microsoft dongle and everything was fine until the next day

Re: [H] HP Compact DC7800 continuous beeping

2013-11-29 Thread Steve Tomporowski
The dongle is the USB receiver for his cordless keyboard mouse. I doubt that it has anything to do with booting. Also, with the dongle removed, it boots fine, then he can plug it back in and keyboard and mouse work. On 11/29/2013 2:18 PM, Winterlight wrote: At 10:59 AM 11/29/2013, you