[opensuse] Friends computer does nothing but sounds like it is keeping rebooting.
Hello, Please exuse my mistakes as I am still suffering from something like a stroke. A friend of mine havse been using openSUSE for a few years but does have to dual boot for some of the work she does for others. Now on to what the computer is doing. 1 When powering it on all lights stay on and nothing seems to happen. Where before grub would give her a choice of what to boot into with the default of openSUSE. 2. When I place a openSUSE 11.2 DVD in the machine all lights still stay on but I hear a constant beep like when the system comes up. 3. This all started when someone who just started renting a room was using her computer late at night and when she woke up to run to the bath room she heard things coming from the front room. She went into the front room and found him with her computer and she thinks pretending tp be a sleep. The lights were still warm and it really appeared as if he had just turned off the light. 4; The next morning she went to use the computer and it is now in this state where all lights stay on and nothing more happens. I suspect either a MS windows virus as this person has always messed with her varrious computers through the years. Or he did some thing he did not intend to do that has caused this outcome. The computer is a HP Pavillion Entertainment PC and from the back HP Pavillion DVD6000. Any ideas on getting this to work? She thinks this person was doing something in windows vista when he heard her and quickly shut off the computer leaving it in this state. He clams he fell a sleep in her recliener next to the computer, but the computer has not shown any signs of problems before this. She had used it till about 11:00 PM then went to bed. It was about 3:00 AM when she found him in the front room near the computer that now when powered on all the ligths come on like it always has in the past but then none go out and nothing more happens even after leaving it on for 5-10 minutes any ideas to try to assist her. This stupid illness of mine does not allow me access to any thing I used to be able to do. The Holstic supplements I started have now allowed me to talk and write somewhat, but my memory is on very old events or jumping around things I have done since the problem started. So I am seeking any assistance to get her laptop back up running linux and maybe check it for viruses in the BIOS znd maybe try what ever virus scanner she may have. She may not have any of the MS update on Vista as she has been only running linux. The main thing is I want to get the data off the machine in case it is the HD that just went bad. I have no ideas to try other than the trying to boot the openSUSE CD;s and DVD. Thanks for any new ideas. Thanks in adavance. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 19:08, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
1 When powering it on all lights stay on and nothing seems to happen. Where before grub would give her a choice of what to boot into with the default of openSUSE. 2. When I place a openSUSE 11.2 DVD in the machine all lights still stay on but I hear a constant beep like when the system comes up.
Generally speaking a steady series of POST beeps means something bad has happened on the hardware level. Two things you need to know to decipher the code... what BIOS and the actual beep pattern.
intend to do that has caused this outcome. The computer is a HP Pavillion Entertainment PC and from the back HP Pavillion DVD6000.
That's the laptop model right?
The main thing is I want to get the data off the machine in case it is the HD that just went bad. I have no ideas to try other than the trying to boot the openSUSE CD;s and DVD. Thanks for any new ideas.
I would start with the POST beep codes (assuming that's what you're hearing when you described the startup sounds you heard)... try to determine if it's POST beeping and the pattern. Once you know the pattern, you can look up the code and that _may_ give you a lead to the source of the problem. I've done a little searching and there are quite a few hits with people describing similar symptoms on the HP DV6000 laptop. If it's a hardware failure being reported by the POST beeps... it could be caused by any number of things that are really hard to pin down... overheating.. simple hardware fail.. liquid spilled on the keyboard etc etc. As for what hardware could be failing... RAM is the usual first point to start. If you're trying to diagnose this over the phone, it's not going to be easy :-( C. PS: Good luck on your recovery! Health is something we all take for granted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Clayton wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 19:08, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
1 When powering it on all lights stay on and nothing seems to happen. Where before grub would give her a choice of what to boot into with the default of openSUSE. 2. When I place a openSUSE 11.2 DVD in the machine all lights still stay on but I hear a constant beep like when the system comes up.
Generally speaking a steady series of POST beeps means something bad has happened on the hardware level.
Two things you need to know to decipher the code... what BIOS and the actual beep pattern.
No beeps without CD in drive. With a CD in the drive one Beep every 1-3 secondes. more like every 3 seconds at the normal place wehere the machine beeped. But all the ligths aer staing on.
That's the laptop model right?
yes -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> 801 849-0213 ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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