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On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:43:01PM -0500, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: |
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> > Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt? |
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> Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or the rescue DVD would take over. |
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> > Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed at the same |
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> > time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge |
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> > that failed so you lost both, basically. |
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> Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or is it soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old. |
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An 8-year old consumer class mobo begs replacing. I think the way to replace |
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the southbridge chip (if that's it) is called floating point solder, or some |
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such. Hardware fails, and just a new kernel for your present drive will get |
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you up and running on a new board. |
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http://happypenguincomputers.com/ |
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