Subj : Re: Computer Broken
To : apam
From : tenser
Date : Wed Sep 10 2025 06:48 am
On 08 Sep 2025 at 05:28a, apam pondered and said...
ap> I thought I would have a go at running my OS on a computer I bought for
ap> it (and had it running on) a while ago. So I got it out... it's not
ap> working.
ap>
ap> Trying to figure out what is wrong.. I tried different RAM, different
ap> Graphics, different monitors.. at one point it started to boot, but only
ap> once, and I have no idea what I did to make that happen.
ap>
ap> It looks as though it works, it just shows nothing on the screen.. the
ap> lights are on, the ethernet card flashes.
Can you hook up a UART? Throwing some debug prints out of the serial
port is usually a pretty good place to start.
You may want to try resetting all BIOS settings, which you can usually
do with a jumper. It sounds a bit like there's some corruption in the
system configuration.
