Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

No $$$ out of pocket but what about your wasted time? Dell should be glad you don't charge them for that. Bill On 7/11/2012 10:38 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Joe Zeff > wrote: On 07/11/2012 03:59 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/11/2012 03:59 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> I talked with the Dell tech and he told me that in fact the heat sink he >> did not put back was important, The part has been ordered and hopefully >> it will fix the problem. >> > > I hope that

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 15:59 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I still don't know what Linux is doing during boot that causes it to > > power the system off while Windows boots just fine. > > Do you use an encrypted drive? That's one thing that would r

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 15:59 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I still don't know what Linux is doing during boot that causes it to > power the system off while Windows boots just fine. Do you use an encrypted drive? That's one thing that would require intensive CPU to decrypt, and one thing that Win

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On 07/11/2012 03:59 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I talked with the Dell tech and he told me that in fact the heat sink he did not put back was important, The part has been ordered and hopefully it will fix the problem. I hope that you have some sort of record that the Dell tech told you that the

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Terry wrote: > > Good to hear you have it solved. > > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

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Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:52 AM, wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:31:27AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I let the system sit powered off for a

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:31:27AM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > > > > > > I let the system sit powered off for a while and then booted the F16 > > > DVD and it booted fi

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > > > I let the system sit powered off for a while and then booted the F16 > > DVD and it booted fine and mounted the file systems just fine. > > However, when I tried to boot off

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 18:39 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I let the system sit powered off for a while and then booted the F16 > DVD and it booted fine and mounted the file systems just fine. > However, when I tried to boot off the disk it got to the point of > telling me it needed to do a sel

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 20:45 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:34:00 -0700 > Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > I'm starting to believe I have another defective motherboard :-( > > Download lots of different distros live CDs and try them. > If none of them work, bad motherboard might be

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 17:00 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I let it sit powered off for a while and tried rebooting running just > on battery, and this time it got past where it failed previously. > This time it ran file system checks on the various file systems, but > for some reason it also decid

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On 07/10/2012 10:23 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 06:39:33PM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Paolo, We don't know that for sure - it may have been scratched or somehow damaged in the interim - though, quite possibly, y

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 06:39:33PM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > Paolo, > > > > We don't know that for sure - it may have been scratched or somehow > > damaged in the interim - though, quite possibly, you are right. > > > > Boris. > > >

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:20:01PM -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > Wow, this is weird... > > > > Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the > > problem but I can't think of anything smarter at the moment. >

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

-Original Message- From: Paolo Galtieri To: Community support for Fedora users Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 9:39 pm Subject: Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Paolo, We don't know that for sure - it may

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Paolo, > > We don't know that for sure - it may have been scratched or somehow > damaged in the interim - though, quite possibly, you are right. > > Boris. > > > >> >> Boris, >> the DVD isn't defective since it's what I used to install F16

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

Paolo, We don't know that for sure - it may have been scratched or somehow damaged in the interim - though, quite possibly, you are right. Boris. > > Boris, > the DVD isn't defective since it's what I used to install F16 on the > hard disk. I'm starting to believe I have another defective m

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:34:00 -0700 Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I'm starting to believe I have another defective motherboard :-( Download lots of different distros live CDs and try them. If none of them work, bad motherboard might be a possibility. (Or memory not plugged in all the way, or bad memory,

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> >>> Wow, this is weird... >>> >>> Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to >>> the pr

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > The system would switch from AC power to battery, dimming the monitor, and > then switch back to AC with the monitor brightening. This continued to > happen on and off for several weeks, it also would happen under Windows 7, > so wasn't an

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Wow, this is weird... >> >> Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the >> problem but I can't think of anything smarter at the moment. >> >> Boris

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Wow, this is weird... > > Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the > problem but I can't think of anything smarter at the moment. > > Boris. > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> Fol

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

Wow, this is weird... Have you tried reinstalling Linux? I know this is a crude approach to the problem but I can't think of anything smarter at the moment. Boris. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Folks, > here's my situation and am wondering if anybody could provide

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Edward M wrote: > On 07/10/2012 04:09 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> The system is configured to boot both Windows 7 and Linux. If I boot >> Windows it comes up just fine and runs, but Linux wont. When I boot >> Windows the fans do not speed up as they do with

Re: Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

On 07/10/2012 04:09 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: The system is configured to boot both Windows 7 and Linux. If I boot Windows it comes up just fine and runs, but Linux wont. When I boot Windows the fans do not speed up as they do with Linu Sounds to me it is a BIOS bug. since it is a differ

Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

Folks, here's my situation and am wondering if anybody could provide some suggestions. Three weeks ago I had the motherboard of my Dell Precision M65 laptop replaced due to issues with the video card. After the Dell tech replaced the board I had no problems booting up on my F16 installation. A