Re: This old SS20 won't boot!
"Andrew Tefft" <[email protected]>
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On 21 Oct 2002 23:12:34 -0500, "John Zbesko" <[email protected]> said: > Recently, I was given two SS20's that I discovered won't boot, even ... > When I turn on the machines, it lights up, the hard drives spin up, but > the monitor stays dark. What could I be missing? This is PROBABLY not your problem, but it's something to check. I have encountered this trouble with some monitors and older machines. It seems there is some kind of probe of the monitor type at power-up, and with some combinations of hardware, this probe will just hang. So try this... unplug the monitor at least until you can tell the drives have been probed, then plug it in and see if you get anything. It's my experience that by the time the drives get probed the monitor probe has finished. -- Andrew Tefft [email protected] -- http://fastmail.fm - mmm... fastmail...