Re: [Sheflug] computer that won't boot after power cut

[Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 July 2012 17:14:01 Adam Funk wrote: 
> I always get the same results:
> 
> power and HDD lights come on;
> nothing on the monitor;
> no lights on the keyboard;
> after a minute or so, the HDD light goes off;
> the computer doesn't get far enough to send boot-up e-mails, and I
> can't ssh into it ("no route to host").
> 
> 
> I'd appreciate any suggestions for debugging this.

I've built a lot of computers. Sounds like a broken hard drive or 
BIOS.  But... I can't see how that relates to a power cut ?  Doesn't 
make sense.  I'd try some of these if you can download them.  Don't 
know if you can do that but here they are anyway....

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

You should be able to get the computer to boot with one of these.  
Can't think what else you could do.

Regards

-- 
Richard

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