Re: [gentoo-user] for the speakup users on the list

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On 17/04/2022 18:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Echoing Jack's comment, I'm not sure this is a heat
> sink problem. Misoperation at the time of letting
> go of the reset button prior to POST. If the machine is
> starting cold a processor wouldn't overheat that fast but
> I haven't yet read all of your thread.
> 
> I think there's also an opportunity here to do some sort
> of remote debug with you if we can find anything that does
> boot.

On quite a few occasions I've had machines that won't boot. Memory is 
notorious for causing a black screen on boot, no beeps, no nothing.

My first PC (Cyrix 686) eventually cured itself after I'd reseated the 
memory 3 or 4 times. This machine, I nicked its 2x8GB for another 
machine and replaced it with 2x16GB - that took several reseats before 
it eventually worked. I'm sure I've had others ...

Okay, if Jude is blind he wouldn't see if the problem is "nothing 
happening", but on any machine that won't do anything that is the first 
suspect...

The other thing is, if the mobo and processor aren't bought as a 
"matched pair" you could get hit like I did with the first incarnation 
of this machine - the mobo and cpu were allegedly compatible, but the 
bios wasn't - I had to RMA the mobo, they upgraded the bios, and then 
everything allegedly was hunky dory. I still haven't rebuilt that mobo 
though ...

Cheers,
Wol