[nmglug] More house calls?

[satguru]

Dear Ted....lthink that you sent to me by mistake...

Ted Pomeroy wrote:
> Brian, I talked to Doug Schocke at his shop and he is willing to help, 
> when he has time. That can include a pick-up and one of us bringing 
> the unit to his shop. He may not be able to get right on it, so don't 
> despair. Can you wait a couple of weeks?  Let me know and I will relay 
> to Doug. There are ways to retreive data even if booting is not going 
> to work. Let me know. Ted P.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:05 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com 
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Additionally: We got a remote disk drive to see if the problem was the
>     internal drive but still can't boot a live cd from that either.
>     Any help
>     at all out there?? Nothing boots at all, just the memory test. It just
>     reboots repeatedly. Is this a hardware issue? Is there a way to
>     try and
>     mount the HD to my laptop and try and access it? It would be great to
>     actually get the box to work though.
>
>     Any gurus out there that do house calls or will take my brother's
>     computer and figure out why he can't boot from a rescue or live cd? I
>     had asked about this a while back as he was having cd drive issues, he
>     thought. He uninstalled and then reinstalled udev and since then
>     he can
>     only boot to memory test. He can access his BIOS settings but can't
>     effect any change. He bought a remote drive to try and boot a cd
>     but no
>     good.
>     He's ready to have someone come over and check out the problem and as
>     he's disabled it's far easier for that than to take the box somewhere,
>     though not impossible.
>     Any help?
>
>     Brian
>
>
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