> Is it possible to screw up the hardware entirely from software? I made In an abstract theoretical sense yes. Accidentally almost impossible. > know is if there is any way to screw the board from software in such a way > that power off and power on does not bring it up ?. The only people are ever likely to do is to corrupt the CMOS, which is easily cleared. > Its a dual pentium-3 machine. The power supply is gone also, the power > supply from the crashed machine does not bring up another normal computer, > also power supply from normal computer does not bring up crashed computer. Sounds like a rather more physical layer problem - like a power spike and PSU failure. BTW: Always put a voltmeter on a power supply before you swap it like that to test it. You need to check the voltages under load look sane otherwise you may end up using a failed PSU to blow up other motherboards which is a rather expensive debugging error ;) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
