From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 5 16:16:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF43337B71B for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jallen@aviating.com) Received: from aviating.com (pool0090.cvx26-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.222.90]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07471 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:16:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3AA42C65.5FB8BDCC@aviating.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:16:37 -0800 From: Slim Organization: none X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Newbies Subject: Hardware Mystery Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I doubt this has any thing to do with FreeBSD directly, but here's the problem: I recently acquired FreeBSD, and thought it would be a good idea to install it and do my learning on a separate spare machine. I had a recently retired P133 sitting around, and that was pressed into service. I installed FreeBSD on this machine, and since then, it has been difficult to boot up. When the machine is turned on, it whirrs the CD drive, the HD whirrs a bit, then stops. The signal light on the monitor doesn't come on, either. After any number of re-sets and re-starts, it will eventually work, the signal light goes on, and the boot up is completed. My guess is that it is a hardware problem completely unrelated to installing FreeBSD. I do not recall seeing this behavior in the past, on this or any other machine. Any ideas/clues/suggestions. etc? TIA Jim Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message