however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 ? one of my friend's computers had a similar problem(although not as severe) and when he set the clock back it was ok, i have a 486DX4-100(rather new ~1995) and sofar it hasnt experienced any problems.
have you done anything odd to your computer before this happened? besides changing the date only thing i can think of is keep swapping things till it works..not more more anyone can do then that:) nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: barts >Hi, barts > barts >I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, barts >so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably barts >Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it barts >doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except barts >the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer barts >is turned off and on the older monitor I tried it with it's barts >just a blank blank space. I hear a little ticking like it's barts >doing something, but that doesn't last long because when I barts >put a boot disk in it doesn't go far enough to be trying to barts >boot of the harddrive/floppy/cdrom. I've tried replacing the barts >graphics card with a different one so it doesn't look like that's barts >the problem. My guess is that this is a BIOS problem. Any ideas? barts >Could a (Windows?) virus have caused this? Is the bios (I have barts >an AMIBIOS in that computer) replacable? Easily? Inexpenssively? barts >I'd appreciate some help with this. I'm using a very old computer barts >right now with a 486 that can barely handle this telnet prompt barts >in Win95 (I install Debian off the harddrive and don't have barts >anything downloaded for it in this computer for me to be able to barts >set it up easily), BTW. I'd appreciate some advice (in private barts >since this might not be specific to Debian?). barts > barts >- Bart barts > barts > barts >-- barts >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null barts > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:33pm up 143 days, 3:32, 1 user, load average: 2.35, 1.99, 1.73
