V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Well, yesterday a thunderstorm came through. My power went off for a few seconds; enough time for my system to go down. I restarted it after the storm passed and it was booting, but had one long warning POST beep... video issues. That sucked. So, I wiggled the connectors and wiggled the vid card in the slot and rebooted. It came up and I booted into Windows to run disk fix on my vfat drive that didn't get shutdown properly earlier. That all went OK. Rebooted again... one long POST beep - no vid. The machine did boot, though. I just logged in as Root without seeing what I was doing on the monitor because it was dark. I did telinit 0 and shut the system down. Wiggled vid card again, rebooted. This time everything came up fine. This morning I powered up and again one long beep - no vid. I disconnected everything, took the unit outside, fired up my compressor in the shop and BLEW THE H3LL out of the innards; they were quite dusty and cat hairy. I hadn't done this for some time. I tightened the vid and mem cards, tightened all connections internally, and so on. I brought the unit back in and fired it up... one long POST beep - no video. ARRRRRRRRRGH! I slammed my open hand against the side of the case and rebooted. All is working fine... for now. We'll see how this goes when I boot up tomorrow. I hope my Gigabyte mobo vid card socket is not going bad on me. This is what happened to me on ericsbane 06 (my current shop system). I had to use the onboard video when I set it up in the shop due to that bad vid socket on that motherboard. If the same happens on this system (ericsbane 07), I'm screwed. It doesn't have any onboard video. Oh, well... if it does take a permanent carp on me, I'll alert Josh via text message on my phone that I'll be going dark (no Internet access) for an extended (possibly forever) time. I'll keep you posted... if I can. Later... ~E. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 I sure hope that slam against the side of the case did the trick, Eric. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 It seems to have, for the moment. I put the system in Sleep mode a little while after posting the above. I just woke it back up and it came up fine. The real test, though, will be the complete power down tonight and the start-up tomorrow morning. Hope I don't have to slap it around anymore. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 9, 2022 Author Share Posted August 9, 2022 Well, we booted up okee-dokee this morning. YAY! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 That's great news! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 Hopefully, it keeps behaving. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 Good deal. Let us know how it goes. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 You can have my old Core2Duo system if you like, it's languishing in a cupboard. Just pop over and pick it up. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 10, 2022 Share Posted August 10, 2022 13 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Hopefully, it keeps behaving. It has a better chance than you mate. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: It has a better chance than you mate. HA! Nah... I'm all out of cigarettes today and haven't had any bourbon in the house since Saturday night. It's going to get UGLY soon. ___ Oh, and system came up fine again today. YAY! 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Just don't jump up and down on it, Eric! (I'll never let you forget that.) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 HAHAHA! Nah... that system that I danced the Irish jig on was Windows XP. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 ONLY MS Windows could get me that aggravated. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 On 8/10/2022 at 8:59 AM, V.T. Eric Layton said: HA! Nah... I'm all out of cigarettes today and haven't had any bourbon in the house since Saturday night. It's going to get UGLY soon. Did you get your stocks replenished? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 15, 2022 Author Share Posted August 15, 2022 20 hours ago, crp said: Did you get your stocks replenished? Yes. Thankfully. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 19, 2022 Author Share Posted August 19, 2022 Hmm... puter wouldn't boot again today. I got frustrated with it earlier and just walked away for a while. If I hadn't I may have considered dancin' a jig. I came back and pulled out my 4 mem sticks and reinstalled. That fixed it! Loose connection, evidently. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 19 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: I came back and pulled out my 4 mem sticks and reinstalled. That fixed it! Loose connection, evidently. We all knew you had a few loose connections, didn't know you had four memory sticks though. Glad you sorted that. So what was wrong with the computer ???? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 HAHAHA! Erik, my fine friend... you are a wonderful smart arse! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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