[TriLUG] No BootUp; Need help.

[Chris Bullock]

I am assuming that you are getting the BIOS to appear on the monitor 
when you first hit the power button?  If not, it is difinatly hardware 
related.  If you are using a kvm as long as you have one computer on, 
the kvm "should" work with hotkeysdepending on the model/brand at least 
mine does.

Jturena at aol.com wrote:

> I came home from the installfest after getting a modem dial-up 
> connection up and running, (BY THE WAY, THAT WAS A GOOD TIME. CAN'T 
> SAY THANKS ENOUGH TO THOSE WHO ORGANIZED AND SET IT UP AND HELPED.), 
> but now that I have re-hooked-up my computer and click the Power 
> button on the box, it doesn't seem to be going through the booting up 
> process and nothing appears on the monitor.
>
> (I have the monitor/keybrd/ms cables hooked to a KVM switch, and the 
> 'switch' _using the keyboard keys_ will not switch back from that 
> machine after I have 'switched' it to that machine from another 
> machine. I have to switch it back to the working machine, manually, 
> using a button on the KVM box, instead of using the hot keys on the 
> keyboard.
> Apparently the computer never went through the boot process, even as 
> the monitor was blank.)
>
> But besides the KVM thing I would like to find out what is going on 
> with the power and bootup.
> The power button will shut off the computer. And the 'reboot' button 
> doesn't seem to make it reboot.
> Of course, I am just listening to the machine since I can't see anything.
> It gets power and a green light comes on, but it just seems like it is 
> with power and not going through the bootup process.
>
> Before I left the Installfest, I used this command to halt the 
> "checking for new hardware" process during bootup:
> " chkconfig kudzu off "
> Would that be affecting things; making it behave like it is?
> I am getting nothing but a black screen after having all of the cables 
> hooked up and hitting the power button "on".
>
> To make matters even more perplexing: as I was driving home, I took a 
> sudden stop on I-40 (because there was a construction barrel in the 
> highway lane), and my computer slid off my front seat onto the 
> floorboard---but it wasn't a terribly hard jolt.
> But if this is not a commom problem, maybe something inside was broken 
> during that spill.
> Any help?
> Thanks in advance.
> Jim Urena