Re: won't POST

der.hans wrote:
> Am 04. Sep, 2005 schwätzte Kevin Brown so:
>
>
>>>>>moin, moin,
>>>>>
>>>>>as of last night my asterisk box ( a week old ) won't post :(.
>>>>>The line describing the cpu come up, then nothing. Can't get it
>>>>>to go into bios setup.
>>
>>>>Getting into the bios should have nothing to do with anything
>>>>you've done to the OS: Try a knoppix cd to see if the box is
>>>>viable.
>>
>>>This is not an OS problem. It's not even getting far enough to get
>>>into the bios setup.
>>>
>>>I hadn't tried a bootable CD because it doesn't get that far. I just
>>>tried it, though, and it still stops after displaying the CPU info.
>>
>>Find the MB manufacturer's website and look for their post code
>>information about your specific board. If the internal speaker isn't
>>hooked up, you won't be able to actually hear the post code errors.
>
>
> There doesn't appear to be a speaker on the box. I don't have any spares
> here.

makes it hard to fix. You should be able to pull a speaker from another
system and hook it up to the appropriate pins on your motherboard. I've
never done it on a live system, but shouldn't cause any harm.
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