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<p>Dudley,
<br>
<br>Do you hear any beeps when you power on the system?
<br>Can yWhat procedures have you attempted to diagnose the problem?
<br>ou describe the hardware you are using in a bit more detail?
<br>
<br>Robert
<br>----- Original message -----
<br>> Hi all,
<br>>
<br>> The problem faced here is that, when you power the XS server you can see
<br>> that the server has been powered and the pwer light is ON, however,
<br>> there is NO DISPLAY ON THE SCREEN.
<br>>
<br>> Thank you,
<br>> Dudley
<br>>
<br>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Anna <<a href="mailto:aschoolf@gmail.com">aschoolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>>
<br>> >
<br>> >
<br>> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dudley Daduwe <
<br>> > <a href="mailto:ddaduwe.olpcbug@gmail.com">ddaduwe.olpcbug@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> >
<br>> > > Thank you for the updates on the motherboard. Please advise me as to
<br>> > > how I could troobleshoot my E-Box server.
<br>> > > Previously I was able to connect the IDE and boot up.However, I
<br>> > > decided to remove the original IDE HDD  and put and new IDE HDD onto
<br>> > > the server. After doing that I was not able to see any activity on
<br>> > > the screen for about 5 minutes. So I decided to put back the
<br>> > > original IDE HDD but still does not show any activity. Looking at
<br>> > > the HDD LED display, I could not see any activity taking place. How
<br>> > > can I get the server back to boot with a display on the screen.
<br>> > >
<br>> > > Dudley Daduwe
<br>> > >
<br>> > >
<br>> > Can you get into BIOS?  Can the BIOS see the hard drives?
<br>> >
<br>> > If you don't know if the machine itself is working outside the hard
<br>> > drives, have you tried booting from a Linux rescue CD?  Some folks
<br>> > like Knoppix for that.  I tend to use Ubuntu NBR (cause I usually have
<br>> > that CD on top of the stack).  But there are a myriad of Linux live
<br>> > CDs out there.
<br>> >
<br>> > If you can get into a live Linux boot, ls /dev and see if you see your
<br>> > hard drives.  If you don't see them, or can't boot into Linux from a
<br>> > CD, then it's time to break the box down and reconnect the drives.  Or
<br>> > check the power supply.  I've run into so many hardware issues with
<br>> > the old stuff I work with, I can't even keep track of how many
<br>> > problems I've had.
<br>> >
<br>> > Hard drives give me special trouble.  If I can actually see the
<br>> > stubborn drives in /dev, I'll use gparted or fdisk to format to a
<br>> > single fat32 partition.  Then the XS install usually picks it up.
<br>> >
<br>> > Anna Schoolfield
<br>> > Birmingham
<br>> >
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