Dear Friends, I have an old amd64 based desktop at home. Until sometime ago it was working fine, dual booting ubuntu and win xp. The power unit failed and I called a local computer guy to repair it. He took down the system, and reported back saying that the power unit, gpu, usb ports and the ethernet card were all konked out. When I pointed out that everything cannot fail at the same time, he looked into the matter ...he took almost a week with. When he returned the system, he ridiculed me for having bought a 64 but system declaring that it was a big flop. He had had wiped out the entire hard drive, installed win xp and said that the cd drive was behaving funny. The usb ports are not working and the ethernet card was failing as well. He had removed the nvidia graphics card saying the system would not boot with it.
He left the system at home for me to tinker with. I found the system was indeed behaving in a peculiar manner. The ethernet card was working fine. But if the driver upgraded, then it would stoop working. I had to unroll the driver. The USB ports were working fine but they would not charge up, for example the creative zen or the ipod touch. The cd drive would sometime not close or open, but was reading cd's just about fine. But the most difficult problem was that it was refusing to boot into the live xubuntu cd that I intended to install. When booting in the verbose method, it would stop at the following lines: After many attempts, I entered the BIOS screen and restored all defaults. Suddenly the system booted into the live cd and I proceeded with my installation. I thought if this was the problem, then I must be able to reproduce it, so I made a few changes in the BIOS settings and the system would halt during the boot process. So I reverted back to the default settings in BIOS, but now the system refuses to boot either into the hard drive or the live cd! What do I do now? The system is completely inaccessible from the xubuntu side. But all along, I can still boot into win xp. Bios is ambios processor is amd athlon xp ram is 512 MB hdd 200gb motherboard - don't know keyboard working cdrom benq working ethernet card via working usb ports working partially - don't charge even when booted into win xp ps2 mouse not working, if I plug it in, the keyboard stops responding, so am using a remote usb optical mouse (cell something) Biswajit D Baruah aka orthodoc -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
