Plugged in, the PSU will not show any power, unconnected to the board, the led flashes. How do I test to see if the PSU is fried or if it is the motherboard?
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I have a seagate SATA hard drive that was running a mythtv distro. It had 3 partitions, EXT3, swap, and XFS. I started having I/O errors on boot and saw error messages on both the EXT3 and the XFS partitions. I also heard some clunking sounds on the drive when it was reading, so I thought hell, the drive is dead.
I have since replaced the drive and everything is back up and running on the replacement drive. I thought hell, the seagate drive is toast, but I just want to verify it with some sort of tool. I have the hard drive in a Vantec NexStar external hard drive case (SATA->USB) and found there was a tool called badblocks. Ran badblocks on it, which ran for 24ish hours and found no bad blocks. I also didn't notice any clunking sounds while it was running.
I ran
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badblocks -n -v /dev/sdb
Is badblocks a proper test to run on external hard drives or was I just wasting my time? Is there any way that I can really test it without removing it and connecting it with SATA to the motherboard?
I learned a couple of days ago why you should do regular backups. Left my laptop working for the day in hot weather. When I came back it had crashed. On reboot it no longer booted up. I could still access the BIOS and boot from alternative media but not from the hard drive. The laptop tried to access the hard disk for a couple of minutes (hard drive light was blinking) and then failed. I made an ubuntu live usb stick and am currently working from there, trying to access my hard drive so I could image my data on another disk before sending the laptop for repairs. All my data is on that disk including my passwords and the password for this site conveniently so I had to register a new account to post this thread.
The laptop is IBM Thinkpad X41. The hard drive is accessed during when boot options are presented, again when the live cd boots up and determines the hardware available and also when manually probing for hard disks using the script below. The hard disk however does not show up in dev. If I could get so far to get it there, I could use dd_rescue to image it away. My hope lies in that the drive still spins up and is accessed producing error messages, however indicating that the system still knows it exists. Excerpt from dmesg concerning the drive:
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One of the old machines in the lab has a problem with onboard LAN, it's detected but not sensing cable - most likely transiver has died.I am trying to revive the machine temporarily by disabling onboard Intel Pro100 and installing a perfect working PCI Realtek 8139 card, but F14 is not loading the module.Being smart I added "alias eth0 8139too" and the module loads now, but there is still no eth0 device, only lo.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have installed Postfix + Amavisd-new, then I am started all services (and configured main.cf and master.cf to use amavis).
The questions are:
1) I am trying to test antivirus scan using eicar test virus
Code:
And the message is successfully delivered to mailbox with mark "CLEAN" in maillog. But I cant see any attachment using
Code:
Where is my mistake?
2) Should I update clam and how I can do it?
3) Is spamassassin enabled by default in amavis (I have started daemon)?
4) Where configuration files of spamassassin is stored?
I am trying to install mysql 5.1.44..so i downloaded the binary package, i extracted it and then followed the instructions that were in the manual but i keep getting this error when running this command
Code:
scripts/mysql_install_db --basedir=/home/mosty/mysql
the error is
Code:
Installing MySQL system tables...
100315 20:07:27 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/mosty.lower-test
100315 20:07:27 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysql/mosty.lower-test
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You can try to start the mysqld daemon with:
shell> /home/mosty/mysql/bin/mysqld --skip-grant &
and use the command line tool /home/mosty/mysql/bin/mysql to connect to the mysql database and look at the grant tables:
shell> /home/mosty/mysql/bin/mysql -u root mysql
mysql> show tables
I have created mobility of 20 nodes and vbr traffic using following attached script I executed the file as ns234 vbr.tcl I got the vbr.tr and vbr.nam but I was unable to load the graph using matlab <trgraph> I thought problem with is vbr.tcl script.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently running Fedora 14 on a 32-bit AMD XP motherboard. My plan is to replace the motherboard w/an AMD 64-bit (multicore, prob'ly) version (most likely w/a different h/w architecture) and I'd like to make sure my current applications and configuration (if that makes any sense) are moved en masse to the 64-bit version.
Is there an easy way to do this? What are my "gotchas"?
I used my old RAM in my new PC. The RAM was rated for 533mhz but the motherboard could not run it below 667mhz. Today I was using tdfsb (3D file system browser) in my music folder (which has a lot of files/folders) the PC froze. After 20min I pulled the plug and it started back up properly. After some updates later that day, I tried to reboot. All it did was shut down and light up the fanlights instead of restarting. I tried resetting the battery. With the old motherboard, bad RAM would cause beeps and I hear no beeps. The board is a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H. The CPU an Athlon II x2 255. RAM failure would cause beeps or not.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm making a simple file server for a small business, running OpenSUSE with raid 1 HDD. Can anyone suggest a good motherboard? I don't really care if it has the raid controllers on it, but if not, a good raid controller?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a motherboard but overlooked that there are no ide or fd plugs on it. What I am wondering is, since the solder points are on the motherboard, can I solder some plugs on or is the controller disabled/non existent?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a home server running Ubuntu 10.04. I want to replace the motherboard and CPU without reinstalling the OS. I read a long time ago that this would sort of work on Windows XP, but with stability issues. However, I have a hunch that on a modern Linux there shouldn't be any problems.
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently my motherboard has been dying and the warentee is gone so I decieded it was upgrade time. I need to know if there is anything special I need to do for Ubuntu to work on my computer after the new hardware is installed. I currently have a 32 bit motherboard and processor and am switching over soon. GRUB 2 handles my boot and I know I have some extra stuff to do on windows 7 but I was wondering what I needed to do to get my computer to boot up after the upgrade.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just upgraded to an ASUS P8P67 Pro (Sandy Bridge) motherboard and moved my old hard drive to the new case. Windows 7 and XP are running smoothly. Ubuntu, however, doesn't detect the Ethernet adapter or doesn't have a suitable driver. ASUS doesn't offer Linux drivers for this motherboard. Is there a way to make Ubuntu revert to a default, working driver?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have tried installing both 10.10 and 11.04 on a older motherboard . The install seems to go smooth till it gets to the "who are you" screen and then there is no forward button lite up.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI bought a new motherboard and put this hard drive and 2 others on it. This hard drive has Kubuntu 8.04, one other has windows 7, and the 3rd one has Mandriva 2010. I re installed Mandriva 2010 so it would recognize the other 2 hard drives (10 hours later). And even though GRUB sees all 3 hard drive I cannot boot to Kubuntu 8.04. I had to put Mandriva on the one because it has a complete GRUB bootloader whereas Kubuntu does Not So is there a way to get this hard drive to work on my new motherboard?
I had to put together another tower with the old mobo to get to where I am now.
Xeon cpu 2 cpu motherboad.
I have following questions:
1) Can I run single CPU first? Add another CPU later when in need.
2) There are 2 sets of dimm. Each set serves its own CPU, I suppose. If running single CPU can the RAM on the 2nd set of dimm be detected and used?
3) What will be the comment on xeon vs amd, same spec (apple to apple)?
If a mechanism is controlling fan speed dynamically there must be a processor involved especially if it is PWM. Is BIOS the code regulating this and does a temp sensor interrupt the CPU to run the code? Is there a Micro controller on the board so the CPU is not involved?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI got my purple fans today and realized that there was spots on the motherboard that looked like the smaller plugs on the fans. (Yes I'm still a n00b). Google led me to a page that told me about my motherboard. I found out that my motherboard only takes DDR2 ram. And I have DDR3 in there right now. I think this solves my issue as to why my computer crashes when I try to put 8GB of ram in it.... So do I upgrade the motherboard or downgrade the ram? (It doesn't want to let me post this URL to the motherboard specs) Asus P5BV-C
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've recently changed the motherboard of a redhat server that's been running fine otherwise. The new motherboard is different to the old one. I can't boot in now; getting "Kernal panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:00" messages. I've run mkinitrd to rebuild the image file and have changed the grub.conf line to point to the new image file but it still occurs.
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.25)
root (hd0,0)
kernal /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd.img.2.4.18-14
However; during the bootup I spy some "unknown IDE device" errors along with some "IRQ resource cannot be reserved" and/or "Could not enable IDE device" or similar messages. As per attached image.
I can detect the harddisk when I bootup using rescuecd and that's how i rebuilt the image file. I have tried changing the "ro root=" to "ro root=/dev/hda3" or other hdax figures; but still the same.
i want to install fedora core 2 on my lap dell inspiron 15 it shows there is no hdd i convert the bios option to ahci but the sata hdd not found
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am just getting into the Raid world with my home server. what i have:
Asus M3A78-CM (may be wrong, cant remember for sure) Motherboard with 6 Sata2 Connectors
3 2TB Sata2 Drives
2GB of DDR2 Ram set in bank A
AMD Dual Core (i'll know what it is when i get the system booted)
What i am trying to figure out is when i build this system, I will put in the HDD's into Sata Ports 1-3 and in the BIOS i will setup a RAID 5 Array. Now, do i just format and partition like normal? Would it be better to have a smaller, and better performing Sata2 for the system so i can have the raid be only for file storage?
In what i have read about this, i need to format each drive into two partitions at least but i do not know what needs to be done, The guides just vaguely say something about two partitions and then move on (trick of the trade? keep all of us in the dark? LOL) I would like to have a raid for my storage and a faster disk for the OS and home directories. But if it cannot be done then thats how it is. So do i put the TB drives in Sata Ports 4-6 and my other drive in Sata Port 1?
My old motherboard (biostar tp35d2-a7) died. I got a new intel h67 motherboard and installed an i5-2400 in it, and tried to boot off of the debian testing install that is on the hard drive, and which worked with the old hardware. (Old system had nvidia graphics.) It doesn't entirely work with the new hardware, however. I don't have ethernet and something is wrong with video, so X doesn't start.
To check hardware function and linux compatibility I booted Knoppix, and both networking and graphics are working properly. How should I go about fixing the installed OS to work with the new hardware? Do I just need to totally reinstall? Or is there some way to add drivers or reconfigure so that the existing OS will work properly?
I'm not a linux noob. Slackware Linux has been my primary OS since the late 1990's. This GA-965P DS3 has been my main system for several years now, and other than a few kernels that had problems with the sky2 ethernet modules, it has been running well with Slackware 11 through 12.1. Core 2 Duo E6600, 6GB RAM, SATA drives in software RAID1, PATA DVD-RW drive, ICH8 Southbridge, JMicron JMB363 RAID/PATA controller. Latest BIOS flashed this morning.
Currently I'm stuck at kernel 2.6.31.13 as any kernel from 2.6.32-2.6.34 locks solid after SATA/IDE device capabilities detection. I can boot from a Slackware 13.0 CD (2.6.29.6 I think) with no problems but not from a Slackware 13.1 CD (2.6.33.4). It locks hard after scanning the first SATA or IDE port that has a device attached. It reads the device serial number and capabilities before locking. I can keep unplugging drives and it moves to the next drive and hard locks. If all the SATA devices are unplugged, after scanning the SATA bus it locks after querying the DVD on the PATA bus. Behavior is the same with custom compiled kernels 2.6.32rc1 through 2.6.34. I'm sure this means it is related to the libata changes in 2.6.32, but no BIOS setting of IDE/AHCI/RAID makes any difference.
I had installed Ubuntu 9.10 edition many times but I was unable to play audio/video,access to internet etc. where will I get the motherboard drivers for Ubuntu.
View 11 Replies View RelatedUsing the onboard gigabit ethernet interface on an Asus M2N-CM DVI motherboard (nVidia chipset) with CentOS 5.2 the ethtool utility recognises that the NIC is capable of gigabit:
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
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System: OpenSuSE 11.0Mouse: Microsoft Intellipoint OpticalI'm having some troubles and am in need of any assistance you can spare. I've recently upgraded to an ASUS A8N-SLI, SuSE transitioned over smoothly as I set the system to mount via volume/disk labels; it booted up perfectly although, naturally, I needed to run SaX2 to reconfigure the X server. After I did this, I logged into my desktop and after about a minute the mousetopped responding. The lights would still light up upon movement however the cursor would not move unplugged and reinserted the device however it would not light up.
I have tried the mouse on my Windows disk and my other Windows computer and it works fine. I have already tried reconfiguring SaX2 andremoving the mouse0 file from /dev/input yet the problem still persists. In fact, I'm navigating the forums with a keyboard. After the mouse fails, if I try testing a new SaX2 configuration, switching virtual consoles or doing anything which would switch resolution the computer locksp and displays s screenful of coloured, fuzzy lines. I imagine this has something to do with an X configuration somewhere, I'll post my X configs here.
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# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
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i have a OpenSUSE 11.3 with Gnome desktop ( core i5 processor, 2 GB DDR3 RAM ) want to run memtest, plz advice me which prog is best for it and where to find documentation or videos.Moreover is there any tests for motherboard / processor
View 8 Replies View RelatedAfter installing a new motherboard msi k9m6pgm2-v2 openSUSE 11.4 64 won't boot.
This is what happens -
The computer boots normally
The grub menu appears as usual
I select opensuse & press Enter
The boot splash appears......but the progress bar stays still for a few secs ...... then the following appears
Code...
Want me to fall back to dev [something something] Y/n ?
When I press enter
Then I press ctrl+alt+del to reboot.
Is there a way to fix this or do I have install openSUSE all over again ?
I have server with Xeon E5620, 8 GB RAM, three 1TB hard drives which are in sw RAID 5 and two 250GB disk which are in sw RAID 1, all of this on Intel S5500BC motherboard. Installation of opensuse 11.0 11.1 11.2 and Enterprise suse 11 was successfull. After grub menu i get blank screen. It`s blank for about 60 - 120 sec and then appear Suse loading page and loading bar. This also happens if i change to text mod. But in text mod i can see what`s going on. First 5-10 lines are informations about partitions and then i get output just like on this link. Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/5nimag0108djIf i hit any key (in graph and text mode) booting will continue to opensuse loading screen and loading bar.I have tried installations on one workstation and one server and didn`t have this problem.
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