Farran: been there, done that. =) When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted. I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare video card, but had a few spare mobos with AGP slots in them around). (that probably reveals how old I am now heh.)
Be careful when diagnosing/testing! XuanYou Tan ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Farran Lee Sent: 17 April 2008 17:48 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo? On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:44 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: Farran Lee wrote: > lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard. I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive failure, I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties. Update the motherboard BIOS, and if it still won't play, swap it out for a spare motherboard and see if that fixes it. Of course, I'm saying this as someone aged 37 with a shed full of obsolete PC spares I can delve through; the only worry being whether the mice have eaten/pooed-on anything important (clue: never keep chicken food and electronics in the same shed). If you're 15 and have just bought your first... everything... then you're probably going to have to make friends with someone who can lend you a spare. By "spare" I mean "they won't mind if you break it". Do NOT disassemble your best mate's very expensive, and only, PC and then discover that your PSU subtly fries every motherboard it comes into contact with. I recommend joining your local Linux User Group and finding someone with their own shed full of spares nearby! http://lug.org.uk -- Andrew Oakley okay, will do :D actually I don't have any friends... that have anywhere full of 'spare' m/bs. Weird really :/ I'll RMA it if they'll accept, and if that doesn't work, I'll get a new one. got a separate /home partition, so if anything goes wrong, I can safely (I hope) reinstall it :D =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
