On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:30 -0500, Greg Wallace wrote:
My guess would be that I've got a video card going out, but item 1) makes me wonder. Could a bad video card actually cause the machine to just give two beeps and not even try to boot?
Yes it can. See http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml or the documentation for the BIOS you are actually using on that machine.
In all cases, if I let the machine sit for maybe just 5 minutes it will re-boot normally (so far, anyway, but I tend to think the problem will get worse over time). Once it's back up, it will run for some time with no problems (I don't recall it ever happening back to back on the same day, but if I left it up long enough the second time I suspect it would ultimately lock up again). There's some pattern here in all of this, but also some inconsistency. Any help diagnosing this problem greatly appreciated.
Sounds very much like it's overheating. Anders