[nmglug] More house calls?

[Bin Hu]

In this case, I would guess there might be some hardware issue. One  
thing you can try is to pull out the memory from the computer and see  
whether it boots.

Bin
On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:48 AM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:

> Apparently it just ran for 2 hours until my brother shut down the  
> box...
>
> Bin Hu wrote:
>>
>> What is the result of memory test? Did it show any error?
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:05 PM, BrianO'Keefe <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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