[TriLUG] No BootUp; Need help.

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Sat Jul 12 22:19:30 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 20:56, Jturena at aol.com wrote:
> To make matters even more perplexing: as I was driving home, I took a
> sudden stop on I-40 (because there was a construction barrel in the
> highway lane), and my computer slid off my front seat onto the
> floorboard---but it wasn't a terribly hard jolt.
> But if this is not a commom problem, maybe something inside was broken
> during that spill.
> Any help?
> Thanks in advance.
> Jim Urena

Open her up and make sure all her cables are on tight and that all the
cards are well seated in their slots. Push on the memory chip and make
sure it is well seated too.

Then crank her on and see if she boots.

This definitely sounds like a hardware problem.

Jon Carnes




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