Puppy boot disc has booted PC, to menu selection, how to diagnosis system problems?
I've got a desktop Presario 5000.
The monitor's LED will stay yellow when the computer is not going to boot. If it turns green I know I'm on the way to the desktop.
It has Windows XP. I got it booted last week without Puppy and removed every misc. and non-necessary programs.
I just got Puppy to do it's thing just now. I saw "done" many times on one screen.
I'm now at the stage of:
choosing to proceed to the desktop,
the proper way to shutdown,
I'm told the Puppy save file will be kept for future Puppy boots.
and other misc but non-diagnostic instructions.
I'm not seeing how to use this tool to diagnose why the computer won't boot itself all the time. Minimal hard drive space is being used.
I've noticed that some times, very intermittantly the screen flickers a little left to right, like it was jarred or something.
1. Can this be the monitor, or the PC?
2. How to proceed with the Puppy disc to diagnose why the system won't boot itself 100% of the time.
The yellow LED on the monitor quickly tells me if it is booting or not. Last week it booted itself 3 times in a row. Yesterday it failed 4 times and booted the next and booted today first time using Puppy.
Thanks.
The monitor's LED will stay yellow when the computer is not going to boot. If it turns green I know I'm on the way to the desktop.
It has Windows XP. I got it booted last week without Puppy and removed every misc. and non-necessary programs.
I just got Puppy to do it's thing just now. I saw "done" many times on one screen.
I'm now at the stage of:
choosing to proceed to the desktop,
the proper way to shutdown,
I'm told the Puppy save file will be kept for future Puppy boots.
and other misc but non-diagnostic instructions.
I'm not seeing how to use this tool to diagnose why the computer won't boot itself all the time. Minimal hard drive space is being used.
I've noticed that some times, very intermittantly the screen flickers a little left to right, like it was jarred or something.
1. Can this be the monitor, or the PC?
2. How to proceed with the Puppy disc to diagnose why the system won't boot itself 100% of the time.
The yellow LED on the monitor quickly tells me if it is booting or not. Last week it booted itself 3 times in a row. Yesterday it failed 4 times and booted the next and booted today first time using Puppy.
Thanks.
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well, our power went out for less than a minute.
The Welcome Woof Woof screen stayed on.
And the power going on and off, opened up the menu:
Choices that sound diagnostic are:
1. system
2. setup
3. utility
4. file system
what should I be looking for to diagnose the boot issue.
The Welcome Woof Woof screen stayed on.
And the power going on and off, opened up the menu:
Choices that sound diagnostic are:
1. system
2. setup
3. utility
4. file system
what should I be looking for to diagnose the boot issue.
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yazee17:
1) Try resetting ur CMOS jumper (placed on Motherboard).
.........what does it look like?
2) Try Updating ur CMOS / BIOS
.........how?
1) Try resetting ur CMOS jumper (placed on Motherboard).
.........what does it look like?
2) Try Updating ur CMOS / BIOS
.........how?
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new symptom:
the computer has been on since 9am with the Puppy menu showing.
The green light on the monitor just went yellow.
Monitor screen is blank.
the computer has been on since 9am with the Puppy menu showing.
The green light on the monitor just went yellow.
Monitor screen is blank.
Still sounds like the power suply to me.
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we do have a shop that will diagnose for free.
I'm trying to sell it, as is, for best offer on Craigslist.
I thought puppy boot disc had a diagnostic tool with it.
Whether this PC had Windows XP was the issue before,
and maybe Puppy was only to bootup, to see which O/S was on it.
I'm trying to sell it, as is, for best offer on Craigslist.
I thought puppy boot disc had a diagnostic tool with it.
Whether this PC had Windows XP was the issue before,
and maybe Puppy was only to bootup, to see which O/S was on it.
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Can anyone say if Puppy boot disc has some diagnostic features on why the system won't boot by itself?
Or is it only a bootup tool?
Or is it only a bootup tool?
I don't know of any diagnostics that could do that. If the power supply is bad and you continue trying to run the computer there is a good chance that it will ruin the motherboard.
Puppy Linux is a cut down version of Linux. Useful for learning Linux or a rescue disk which I think you may have used it for.
>> why the system won't boot by itself?
Lots of possibles here. Power supply has been suggested. Faulty hard disk. Virus or malware infected hard disk. Faulty motherboard. Corrupt installation on the hard disk.
If the fault is intermittent, you can't tell when it is going to happen this gets very problematic to troubleshoot.
Let's see. If you disconnect the CDROM drive do you have trouble booting from just the hard drive? Or if you disconnect the hard drive do you have trouble booting from just the CDROM drive?
>> why the system won't boot by itself?
Lots of possibles here. Power supply has been suggested. Faulty hard disk. Virus or malware infected hard disk. Faulty motherboard. Corrupt installation on the hard disk.
If the fault is intermittent, you can't tell when it is going to happen this gets very problematic to troubleshoot.
Let's see. If you disconnect the CDROM drive do you have trouble booting from just the hard drive? Or if you disconnect the hard drive do you have trouble booting from just the CDROM drive?
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Let's see. If you disconnect the CDROM drive do you have trouble booting from just the hard drive? Or if you disconnect the hard drive do you have trouble booting from just the CDROM drive?
.........the above will have to be tried later in the week.
On this thread or another, with the boot problems, Puppy was recommended. I was under the assumption is was a way to get booted up and locate the boot issues. If Puppy is only for bootup then it can not diagnose anything.
The computer stopped sending a signal to the monitor.
Before that I was on this screen:
Puppy woof woof menu:
Choices that sounded diagnostic were:
1. system
2. setup
3. utility
4. file system
So, with Puppy woof woof menu open and the choices are the 4 you see above, what kind of information would have been found in those locations, like system, utility, etc?
.........the above will have to be tried later in the week.
On this thread or another, with the boot problems, Puppy was recommended. I was under the assumption is was a way to get booted up and locate the boot issues. If Puppy is only for bootup then it can not diagnose anything.
The computer stopped sending a signal to the monitor.
Before that I was on this screen:
Puppy woof woof menu:
Choices that sounded diagnostic were:
1. system
2. setup
3. utility
4. file system
So, with Puppy woof woof menu open and the choices are the 4 you see above, what kind of information would have been found in those locations, like system, utility, etc?
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will report back with results of repair shop findings.
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I should hear from the repair shop this coming week and will report the results.
ok nick; do you need more explanation?
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The shop said 128 ram with windows XP should not cause a freeze up.
They said "most likely" it is a motherboard issue.
They will test the power supply and hard drive.
The sickly pc will be trashed, or sold on Craigslist.
Every time I tried to boot this pc, it would boot or not boot. If it booted, it stayed booted.
However, when I took the pc to the shop, they booted it up 2 times. In both cases, it cutoff within a couple minutes.
The guy used a slang word for these cutoffs....the pc "crapped"
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edbedb, first mentioned the inability of puppy to diagnose.
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pc needs a motherboard.
Have the PS tested or try replacing it.