Hi, i decided to install k3b, and used apt-get. After it was installed, i ran it from the terminal... here you go:

 

Hi, my name is 10100011 01001111 10010110 (dont spend time on trying to find out what it is, cos it means nothing)

I am Andreas' little slow computer, and i'm using his account, because hes not looking this way right now..

 

Here are my specs (like you care) :

 

750mhz Intel Pentium III

256MB of PC133 SDRAM

a Creative SB live 5.1!

a cheap 10/100 NIC

a broken 16/40x PioneerDVD player

an ok 52/32/52x Lite-on CD-R Burner

a goddamn slow standard floppy drive from Sony

a 30GB IBM, IDE disk

an ABIT Siluro GF 2 MX (still works)

and Fedora core 1 as OS..

 

Whatcha think?

Am I slow or what.. :)

And my master has no plans upgrading me...

 

10100011 01001111 10010110

Welcome to the first edition of Ask Ritter. Our first chapter comes from a personal experience I feel some of you poor noobs might benefit from. So it's kind of a Ritter asks Ritter thing but I swear I talk to myself only when I need to.

 

Ok, so a friend of mine, and definately not me accidently flashed his brand new Abit NF7-S (v2.0) motherboard's BIOS with a bios file that was designed for a v1.x board. Oddly enough there were insufficient safeguards to keep the wonderfully easy to use MenuFlash programming utility from recognizing this was an incorrect bios file for that revision of motherboard. And almost ironically the utility displayed wonderously entertaining information and progress meters as it overwrote the current bios sucessfully. Much to my friends surprise upon restarting the machine, it failed to POST (power on self test). It sat quite dead as I, (I mean my friend) stared at it and watched my monitor report that it itself would turn off due to no signal. At this point (far too late) I thought to myself "Maybe it is a v2.0 board ... huh." I figured I've seen worse and moved forward with standard procedures to recover.

 

When dealing with troubles involving the BIOS there are a few steps of items to try, all of course vary based on age of technology, vendor, etc etc. But I'll list for the steps I took (for my friend, and not me).

 

Step 1: Soft reset of BIOS data.

Most recent BIOS chips have some amount of failover or recovery options, so our first step is to see if we can nicely recover from overclocking too high or some other option that has cause the system not to POST. With my Abit motherboard and I'm sure many others out there like it, you can perform what I'll coin as a "soft reset" by holding the DELETE key down while you press the power button to turn the computer on. I usually hold it for a good 10 seconds or more while I wait and pray to hear that lovely tone that assures me my computer is not completely dead. I vaguely recall using the INSERT key on an older Asus motherboard .. or I could be crazy. Do a little research and I'm sure you can find the proper method for your specific brand.

 

Should Step 1 not succeed as a recovery option you may continue on, keep your chin up little camper, the battle is not over, we move on now to defcon .. I mean.. step 2.

 

 

Step 2: Hard reset of BIOS data.

All motherboards have some technique to reset or clear the CMOS (BIOS). Most prefer the good old fashioned jumper method and that what was on my friends NF7-S. Fairly easy to find usually located near the oversized watch battery looking mecahism is a 3-pin jumper block with a jumper connecting 2 of the 3 pins. Before we do anything here we make sure of one thing:

 

2a: TURN OFF THE POWER ... unplug the power cable, flip the switch on the back of the power supply, all and whatever is needed to ensure that the motherboard IS NOT getting any ounce of voltage. Key items to use as a sign of such state would be LEDs on the motherboard. My friends NF7-S has two, a red and a green. You must make sure the motherboard doesnt have any power before switching the clear cmos jumper.

 

2b: switch the jumper to the appropiate oppisite pins, but .. please, please, please refer to your motherboards manual for better specifics. In my case it was recommended to leave the jumper in place for approximately 1 minute. I'm pretty sure it doesn't need any more than a few seconds to clear, but when facing a dead computer, we are willing to spend some extra time in attempting resurrection.

 

2c: return the jumper to its original (normal state).

 

2d: re-enable power, reverse what ever method you took to disable the power to the motherboard.

 

With any luck your system will POST (noted by the single beep tone) and prompt you to enter the setup utility or bios menu and reconfigure your bios options. In my case, it was best summarized by Max Payne, "This was about the time you realized Lady Luck was a hooker ... and you're fresh outta cash." Basically, no such luck for me. But hope is not lost!

 

 

Step 3: BIOS bootblock (only really really new non-fscked bios have this)

My BIOS should have had this option, except that I broke my bios really good flashing it with the wrong version file. Basically though, if you get this:

Can I view my Linux Red hat 9 partition HD on my Winxp? Please let me know.

 

Thanks~!

Hey, I followed this how-to, but I had httpd, mysql, and php installed from the default Disk install, so I removed php, mysql, and httpd before evreything using rpm -e and now whenever I run apt-get I get the following error,

Anyweb, i was thinking that it would be a great idea to allow people to connect to Efnet/#linux-noob from the forum/website. I really don't know what you would use to accomplish this project, but am sure that it would create more traffic and users in the channel!!

 

Sanchez

After i upgraded to the kernel version 2.6.7... I get this error message when booting up the pc.... my nic card driver can't be loaded...

 

Whats' the problem here....

My nick is ardya, I'm a channel operator on EFNet IRC's #linux channel. I've been on that channel around 7+ years, been an op for around 5 years. I've been asked by this boards maintainer if I wanted to take part in these forums, and I said yes :)

I have two web sites, one for linux related subjects [/url]http://linux.ardynet.com/frames.php3 and my music site http://www.ardynet.com. There's also [url=http://www.kritek.net]http://www.kritek.net for testing IPv6 connectivity. I also host two irc servers on a small net, irc.diix.org (IPv4/6), and irc.ipv6.kritek.net (IPv6 only). My web sites offer some services like mp3/ogg streaming of my own music, IPv4/6.

That's about it :)

i use gaim mostly (in linux) and msn messenger in windows

 

gaim does most things but i miss the fact that file transfer and webcam stuff are not options yet, but hey its developing

 

what do you use and why ?

 

cheers

 

anyweb

many thanks to both z0ny and ]enigma for their unbelivable help

 

i REALLY appreciate the efforts you dudes make, and as a result you are both now admins

 

many thanks

 

anyweb