Re: Fedora Core 2 killed my Soyo Motherboard

From: philo (philo_at_privacy.net)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:35:16 -0500

"Tony Mendonca" <mendonca139@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:vUvsc.4405$iCJ1.3395@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Just finished upgrading my RedHat 9.0 to FC2 on the following hardware.
> P3-450
> Soyo SY-6BA+ motherboard
> 256MB
> 16MB Riva TNT Video
> 12 GB HD, Partitioned 2GB FAT32(W98), 2GB NTFS(W2K), remainder Linux Ext3
> partitions
>
> Upgrade went smoothly all 4 CDs read and loaded normally
> System rebooted with boot menu showing FC2 and DOS
> Booted FC2 and it loaded with with only one complaint that the KB was
> different
> Tried a number of apps and ran mozilla - everything worked fine.
> Ran up2Date first time it it complained that it counldn't contact mirror.
> Ran it a second time and it seemed to be talking to the mirror site.
> Left the room for 10 minutes and the screen was black. Dead KB, mouse.
> Couldn't even use the power button, had to pull power cord to shut it off.
>
> Now the system will not even show BIOS screen.
> CD, Fans, Power and HD lights are all on but no video.
> Network adapter light will occasionaly flicker
>
> Has anyone else had FC2 do this to their systems?
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bad shutdowns like that can occasionally disrupt the bios

chances are your mobo has a bios reset jumper

it;s usually near the battery

with the power off...move the jumper over for a few seconds

then put it back in the normal position and hopefully your machine will
work
again...though you may have to do a little bios tweaking

btw: it's fairly rare..but i;ve seen a few motherboards that became
problematic
due to low cmos batteries... as long as you have to open the case
might as well check your cmos battery and replace it if it's under 3 volts