[olug] Hardware problems on an HP desktop

[Jay Swackhamer]

I've had a couple of HP's in with these symptoms, and it ended up being a
flaky motherboard each time.


> Albeit not directly Linux related... I figured someone here may be able to
> spot
> these hardware symptoms.  Read on if you have a minute.
>
> On my sister's HP desktop (Pavilion 7915 I think), when she turns on the
> power,
> the blue HP power on screen (pre-BIOS) comes up and proceeds to do
> nothing.  It
> doesn't even let me pop into BIOS to mess around.
>
> The odd thing is that if she turns off the computer and tries again, after
> around 10-30 tries, the computer will boot up as if nothing is wrong.  So
> she
> has gotten into the habit of leaving the computer on 24/7 if she can get
> it to
> boot.
>
> I initially unhooked everything (every connector I could unhook) and
> plugged
> them back in firmly.  I reseated the processor.  I also tried leaving all
> the
> drives (hd, fd & CD) unhooked and booting, but still it had the same
> problem.
> I even "spit shined" the connectors on the memory cards before reinserting
> them.
>
> I'm going over this evening to switch out the memory w/verifiable working
> memory.  If that doesn't work, I'm stumped.  Maybe the motherboard is
> whack?
>
> Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Eric Pierce
>
>
>
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