Re: Fedora Core 2 killed my Soyo Motherboard

From: Tony Mendonca (mendonca139_at_rogers.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:47:42 GMT

The Battery is still good. tested on another PC and Multimeter.
I've Reset the CMOS jumper
I've removed all Memory sticks in all combinations
Now the system continously makes long beeps followed by short gaps of
silence.
Still no Video of CMOS.
This is a PC that has worked flawlessly for 5 years and run 15 different
versions of Linux, FreeBSD and never experienced these problems.
Could FC2 be changing the BIOS of the PC?

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "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?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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
>
>