SueD Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 ...not even a Live CD.According to amibios, my BIOS version is a GE PRO-M2 BIOS P2.50. And except for setting up my boot order, nothing's been touched.Forget trying to boot into Mandriva, it just hangs. Slackware stops at... ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14hda: lost interruptWhat have I done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlangdn Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Do you use Lilo? Is so, try passing the boot option:acpi=offJust type that in after you make your boot selectionI've never used grub, so I don't know how to pass boot parameters in grub.From what I have read, there may be a bug in 2.6.24 kernels causing this. There should be some successful boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Hi SueAs you replace the battery you loose ALL your BIOS settings ( also the BIOS password in case you did set up any ) . . . and should walk through them one by one to make sure they are okay. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlangdn Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 When she said battery, I assumed it was just a laptop power battery, not the CMOS battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2cm Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) Asrock desktop motherboard, not laptop.Changing the CMOS battery resets all BIOS settings to factory defaults. You need to get to the BIOS (press f2 at startup) and change some settings. Edited August 17, 2008 by b2cm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) I knew all my settings would revert to the default so that's not the problem. Everything looks as it did before the battery change, I'm almost sure of it (98% sure, anyways). I even enabled or disabled some stuff, one at a time, to see if that would work. It didn't.But even if they aren't, shouldn't I at least be able to boot up with a Live CD? None of them are working.Oh, and I did change one thing at the beginning...the date and time. But that should be a good thing, non?ETA...the other desktop I have here has the exact same BIOS and both are almost identical. Edited August 17, 2008 by SueD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Hello,Did you check to make sure none of the expansion cards or cables inside the computer chassis are still firmly seated? One can sometimes nudge a cable just enough when changing a battery so that some device no longer powers up or is seen by the BIOS.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 I did check but I will check again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 (edited) I did check but I will check again.I agree with Andrew. Just opening the case can cause trouble. I'd reopen it and while I had it open I'd vacuum all the accumulated dirt and dust and take the time to clean the memory stick's connectors and reseat all of the cables.There should be an option in the BIOS for setting everything to default "failsafe" condition. I'd try that first and once it's working, reset things for faster operation one at a time. Edited August 18, 2008 by lewmur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 Thanks all. Most is fine now without any help from me, it seems. I was able to boot into Slackware a few minutes ago without touching a thing. Stupid computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Typical <sigh> Computers do that and we have no idea why! I still think all computers have gremlins inside that play tricks every so often just to confuse us. :hysterical:I tell my husband the electrons need to be shussled properly. (Shussled is a PA-Dutch actually PA-German word that means reorganized but in a messy way). So the elctrons finally got properly shussled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 Shussled...I love that!LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Shake em up Sue! (the electrons...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 *giggle* They're all shook up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tushman Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Typical <sigh> Computers do that and we have no idea why! I still think all computers have gremlins inside that play tricks every so often just to confuse us. :hysterical:I tell my husband the electrons need to be shussled properly. (Shussled is a PA-Dutch actually PA-German word that means reorganized but in a messy way). So the elctrons finally got properly shussled! I agree with that Zlim. By the way, I wonder if that Shussled has the same origins as our english word "shuffled". Or perhaps our shuffled is a derivative of the German word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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