Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Sascha Wildner
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting passwords with : or other characters. At that point I hit hard (cold) reset and since

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Raimundo Santos
On 3 July 2012 18:15, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting passwords with : or other characters. Well, I have this issue too: only alphanumeric chars.

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box. When setup was in the configuration phase it didn't allow setting passwords with

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Sascha Wildner s...@online.de wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:15:47 +0200, Carsten Mattner carstenmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to install dfly 3.0.2 on an old amd64 box.

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Raimundo Santos rait...@gmail.com wrote: Well... you are very lucky! :) Always have identical spare mainboard just in case? Try to boot without the HDD and see what happens. That worked see the other reply.

Re: machine won't start

2012-07-03 Thread Edward M
On 07/03/2012 02:15 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: At that point I hit hard (cold) reset and since that time the machine won't leave the BIOS startup phase (POST?). Took out the CMOS battery for a minute to no avail. Anything else I should try? Is it possible that the ROM or CPU has been damaged by