How current is your BIOS? It may be part of the problem.

Jim

Ricardo wrote:       Hallo Martin,

    My system is grounded (once I moved into a farm only aftergrounding one of the plugs where I wanted to use my computer. Theelectrical network here in Brazil is not exactly one of the bests ofthe world :-) ). But I'm not really sure if that's a hardware issue,than it only happens when I use dyne. With other distros (tried atleast another 5 on the last months) the system works perfectly. That'sthe strange point. 

     Anyway thanks again for the tip.

            Ricardo

Martin Breguet <martinbreguet@???> escreveu: Ricardo,

Make sure your electrical system is properly grounded (la tierra). Itis
vital for the well being of your PC... Where I live, plenty of usershave
electricity without ground (you know, that long metal stick, plantedinto
the ground, that connects to the 3rd hole in the plug)...
So it possibly is the source of your hardware problem...

Hasta luego,

M.




On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:39 -0400, Ricardo wrote:

> Ol&aacute;,
>

> Thanks a lot for the answers. I did what Martin said but it didn't    
> work. So I tried to use dyne:bolic without any HDs connected tosee if 
> they could be the problem, but I still couldn't reboot the system 
> without removing the power cable for a while. After doing that, Idocked 
> dyne on a partition, edited grub to boot the distro without CD, 
> unplugged the DVD drive (have only one) and started the system(thought 
> that drive could be the answer), but it didn't help. Conclusion: Ithink 
> the problem aren't the drives. Maybe it has something to do withthe 
> memory, then what I see when the boot hangs are the followinglines:

>
> PC2-4300 Dual Channel Interleaved
> Checking NVRAM
> Initializing USB Controllers .. Done
>
> After that it should appear:
>
> 1024MB Ok
> Auto-detecting primary master .....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ricardo
>
>
> Martin Breguet escreveu: You might needto
> shut down the pc, open it, unplug your hard
> drive(s), and boot your pc like this. Of course, after the POST,there
> won't be no boot, since the hdd is unplugged. Now you shut downagain,
> and plug the hdd back. Boot, and you shouldn't have any more
> problem...
> M.
>
>
>
>
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