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Post #41,378
by cwbrenn
6/6/02 5:22:04 AM
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New Interesting. Encouraging results.
I'm now posting from a cobbled-together alex. Poor guy. We'll see if he continues to work when I shut down and restart.

The hardware on my linux box worked just fine -- it was having horrid software problems, as evidenced in my "When Bad Computers Get Worse" storyline on Help Desk. So instead of trying to take all those parts over to my windows pc, I simply moved my alex hard drives over to the linux box, and put the linux hard drives on a shelf (where they still need to think long and hard about what they've done).

lo and behold, alex booted up.

More than that, Windows 2000 actually DETECTED the new motherboard, chipset, etc. and ADJUSTED automatically -- the first time ever a windows machine has ever done that for me.

So Windows was working.

Curious, I decided to swap out the linux box's cpu with the new one that came with the currently abandoned motherboard. It hadn't run on previous tests, so I didn't expect much...

... and sure enough, when I turned on the power, all the fans revved up, and the hard drives even revved up -- but nothing appeared on the monitor. So I decided to turn it off... but I hit reset instead...

... and LO AND BEHOLD, POST, BIOS, Hard Drives detected, load Windows 2000.

So I'm confused. But, when all is said and done, if this sucker reboots properly I'm willing to stay confused as long as the machine continues to work...
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
Post #41,400
by drewk
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6/6/02 10:32:07 AM
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New You call that encouraging?
So I'm confused. But, when all is said and done, if this sucker reboots properly I'm willing to stay confused as long as the machine continues to work...

[Shudder] I wish I could claim never to have said this to myself, but alas I do work with computers for a living.
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
Post #41,410
by cwbrenn
6/6/02 11:40:16 AM
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New Yeah, well...
if the alternative is confusion and nothing working, I'll take confusion and stuff working instead. :)
"We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?"
- Edward Young
     Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem? - (cwbrenn) - (32) - June 4, 2002, 03:04:22 PM EDT
         Sounds like a power problem to me. - (Another Scott) - June 4, 2002, 03:19:10 PM EDT
         one off the wall maybe - (boxley) - (2) - June 4, 2002, 04:34:32 PM EDT
             I'll try that. - (cwbrenn) - (1) - June 4, 2002, 05:06:53 PM EDT
                 Alas, alack. - (cwbrenn) - June 4, 2002, 10:21:58 PM EDT
         Best bet for testing PS - (Steven A S) - (1) - June 4, 2002, 04:34:46 PM EDT
             I've gone one further than that. - (cwbrenn) - June 4, 2002, 05:04:12 PM EDT
         Hehehe.... Okay. Now we really get sticky... - (folkert) - (10) - June 4, 2002, 10:26:34 PM EDT
             you mean... it might be a problem with the TOWER? - (cwbrenn) - (5) - June 4, 2002, 10:41:30 PM EDT
                 Case in point! - (folkert) - (4) - June 4, 2002, 11:15:20 PM EDT
                     Ok, it's not the case - (cwbrenn) - (3) - June 5, 2002, 10:57:44 AM EDT
                         BOG.... - (folkert) - June 5, 2002, 09:13:38 PM EDT
                         On using force - - (Ashton) - (1) - June 6, 2002, 01:40:39 AM EDT
                             Grounding motherboards. - (static) - June 6, 2002, 08:00:48 AM EDT
             Uh.. yeah - (Ashton) - (3) - June 4, 2002, 10:59:06 PM EDT
                 Saw a huge batch... - (folkert) - (2) - June 4, 2002, 11:30:00 PM EDT
                     PC electronics appears most often to be a POS - (Ashton) - (1) - June 5, 2002, 12:25:18 AM EDT
                         Splain'd - (folkert) - June 5, 2002, 09:05:28 PM EDT
         Longshots - (Ashton) - June 4, 2002, 10:47:21 PM EDT
         The more I test, the more confused I get - (cwbrenn) - (1) - June 5, 2002, 12:01:13 PM EDT
             Speak of the devil.... - (Another Scott) - June 5, 2002, 12:29:54 PM EDT
         Interesting. Encouraging results. - (cwbrenn) - (2) - June 6, 2002, 05:22:04 AM EDT
             You call that encouraging? - (drewk) - (1) - June 6, 2002, 10:32:07 AM EDT
                 Yeah, well... - (cwbrenn) - June 6, 2002, 11:40:16 AM EDT
         Mysterly solved... and I AM AN IDIOT :) - (cwbrenn) - (8) - June 6, 2002, 04:24:04 PM EDT
             This is like the 'made for IE' pages that break in Mozilla - (drewk) - June 6, 2002, 04:45:20 PM EDT
             Idiot? Come on! - (Meerkat) - June 6, 2002, 08:13:36 PM EDT
             Not an idiot. - (static) - (5) - June 6, 2002, 10:32:30 PM EDT
                 Definitely Not an idiot. - (jbrabeck) - (4) - June 7, 2002, 09:02:06 AM EDT
                     Oddly though - - (Ashton) - (3) - June 7, 2002, 07:06:47 PM EDT
                         That's rare! - (static) - June 9, 2002, 02:14:42 AM EDT
                         Don't recall ever seeing "ground loop" mentioned . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 9, 2002, 02:31:35 AM EDT
                             Could be mfg.-memory on that phrase.. - (Ashton) - June 10, 2002, 01:59:14 AM EDT

Now, would I trow dis lit match in if my friend Muggsy were in dere?
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