Re: OT a completly stuffed ME machine?
- From: Frazer Jolly Goodfellow <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:35:03 GMT
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:ca3u92tat1q21ddum9bu181n621pv2tn84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:17:21 GMT, Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This for a friend of a friend (it's not my machine), who says...
"But the problem is when I start the Machine, I cannot get to
Setup (by hitting DEL ) before the "Going to Sleep" message
appears. A true non-starter."
With the "DEL" key comment, it sounds more like FOAF can't get
into the BIOS before the machine sleeps. Which isn't anything
I've ever seen before. Do you know if it's a laptop? If it is,
get them to take the battery out and try again. Otherwise, no
clues.
As I've never even used ME,
You're very lucky. There are apparently three people on Usenet
for whom it works fine, the rest of the teeming hordes went
"Ew!" and moved back to 98se or on to 2k/xp quickly.
Whilst agreeing that ME is definitely sub-optimal[=crap], I don't
think it is directly relevant in this case. It does provide the
clue that the system is probably well past its recycle-by date.
The "Going to Sleep" message is probably being generated by the
monitor: the PC is crashing very early in its startup sequence,
hence no video output to and starts up Windows.
Suggest you try the following steps, testing after each one:
1) disconnect all drives, remove all adapter cards except the
graphics adapter
2) reset the BIOS via the motherboard link
3) swap the RAM card(s) for known good unit(s)
4) disconnect the power-on switch connector(s) from the motherboard
and momentarily short the relevant motherboard pins directly to
start the PC
5) swap the graphics adapter for a known good unit
6) swap the PSU for a known good unit
7) swap the cpu chip for a known good unit
8) swap the motherboard for a known good unit
9) have a priest exorcise the PC
10)relocate it to a recycling skip
.
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