[NTLUG:Discuss] Crash recovery

[Fred]

On Wed Aug  5 16:06:29 CDT 2009 Robert Pearson e2eiod at gmail.com  wrote:

> 
> Do you get any error messages at all?
>
> Do you have GRUG installed for booting?
> For GRUB to work it has to find the boot file on the correct partition.
>
>  If not, how is your BIOS configured for booting?
> On my machines I can set the boot drive in the BIOS.
> Always works for IDE drives. Tricky to get to work with SATA drives.
>

Robert:

"blew" means just that: blew. Swapped power supply, mobo still dead.
Dead is also self explanatory, like an armadillo on the side of the road.
Will not power up.

This mobo has had cancer for a couple of years.. first the serial port got 
to where it had to be power cycled before it would work, then IDE0 
started the same crap and finally stopped altogether, then I noticed the
3.3 volt supply was giving a power fault. About 2.8 volts, I think. Since that
is a board-derived voltage, I figured it was only a matter of time before
it flat lined and 3 days ago it finally happened. Anyone have an ASUS
P4BP-MX to spare?

Fred