Hello, Roy.
Can't tell from your post if you're still doing email, but I sent you an
email this afternoon about that boxful o' stuff I'm going to send you.

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to ALL <=-


 RJT> Checked the battery,  it's a common coin cell,  CR2032,  and measures
 RJT> 0.5v! Never saw one get that low...  Pulled one off another board that
 RJT> was laying around here that I can't use for other reasons (keyboard
 RJT> connector's in a strange place),  and checked that -- 2.8v -- but it
 RJT> gives me the same result.

Hmm. I know a fellow who once solved just such a problem by using a
rat-tail file :-).  I'm assuming yours is an AT type mainboard, but with
side by side PS/2 connectors for keyboard and mouse in place of the
larger (5/8" or so diameter) older type keyboard connector.  BIR at
least some of those I've seen have the ps/2 keyboard connector
accessible, but the ps/2 mouse port is the one you can't get to. That
reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask here - - where can I
buy a sheetmetal "nibbler" for a reasonable price?

 RJT> Re-seated the ram,  and next time I power up it sees only 32M of 64.

Dang! You were really on a roll!

 RJT> Tried again,  got past that,  and it hangs right after selecting video
 RJT> mode at the boot prompt,  with a couple of funny characters top left
 RJT> corner of the screen.

 RJT> Tried changing the video card out,  and now I'm at that "System
 RJT> Configurations" box that the BIOS puts up there,  and it's hung again.
 RJT> Tried setup again, saving it again,  and it goes,  gets partway into
 RJT> the boot process,  and hangs again,  right after "Freeing unused kernel
 RJT> memory: 112k freed".

I know you think that Linux is your friend, but maybe at this point it
is your enemy? Sounds to me like your HDD is now farkeled, and you might
be better off going back to FDD boots and diagnostics.  You got those
utilities on FDD for use with Linux?

 RJT> Yep,  Looks like I'm gonna be shopping for some hardware again today.
 RJT> :-(

My recommendation: look for something well less than 5 years old, for
once.  [:-D.

 RJT> Or maybe not,  I feel lousy,  probaby have that bug that's been going
 RJT> around, and won't be going anywhere today...  :-(

Looks from here like you posted the above noonish on Friday.  I hope
you're feeling better now.
- - -  JimH.

... We are the Borg. Your hard/software are now useless. Resistance is futile.
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