Hi Maureen there was a flap a few years back about exploding capacitors on motherboards. But that can also be caused by power surges or misbehaving AC sources. You have a UPS so it filters the line power at least a bit, maybe hopefully. GDay
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 4:46 PM Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net> wrote: > So I opened up the machine to take out the old hard drive and found that > two spots on the motherboard with burnt looking. So I got a new computer > and all is back up and working. I am on an ups box so I don't understand > how this happened. Any way > > Thank you for all your helping this old lady. > > Maureen > On 3/27/21 6:05 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > If you have a spare hard drive, at this point I would swap it in and > reinstall. See how that goes. > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 2:02 AM Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net> > wrote: > >> So I did download your suggestion and it worked. It went all the way >> through re-install with no problems. On booting for the first time I >> got the message fsckd-cancel-msg: Press ctrl+C to cancel all filesystem >> checks in progrees. Well it freezes and nothing is happening. It just >> stay that way indefinitely. No file checks and unable to use ctrl+C >> does not work. Any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thank you >> >> Maureen >> >> On 3/26/21 1:22 AM, Charles Curley wrote: >> > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:59:04 -0400 >> > Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net> wrote: >> > >> >> So I decided to re-install debian 10. >> >> While doing so I get to the part about the entering the needed rtl >> >> files which I have on DVD and on USB. I tried both but neither of >> >> them would work. I cannot get it to even come up to a command line >> >> to do dmesg and see what the real problem may be. >> > I take it that by "rtl files" you mean RealTek firmware blobs for >> > RealTek devices. >> > >> > What I found was that Bullseye (Debian 11) wants the firmware .deb >> > package, not the extracted firmware files. This may or may not work on >> > Buster (Debian 10). Also it wants the file in the root directory of the >> > USB device. >> > >> > You may be able to install without them if you don't need the interface >> > they support to install. You would need some other interface either >> > during installation, or shortly after installation to bring the >> > firmware package in. >> > >> > Probably the easiest option: you might try the unofficial with-firmware >> > installation images. Depending on your requirements, you should be able >> > to drill down from this page: >> > >> https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/ >> > >> >>
