That could well be what happened. We did have an electrician out
here a few days before this happened for a completely different
problem with the room next to where the computer is. It may have
been that for all I know. Anyway it is fixed and so is the new
computer. Again thanks for all the help.
Hi Maureen there was a flap a few years back about exploding capacitors on motherboards. But that can also be caused by power surges or misbehaving AC sources. You have a UPS so it filters the line power at least a bit, maybe hopefully. GDay
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 4:46 PM Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
So I opened up the machine to take out the old hard drive and found that two spots on the motherboard with burnt looking. So I got a new computer and all is back up and working. I am on an ups box so I don't understand how this happened. Any way
Thank you for all your helping this old lady.
Maureen
On 3/27/21 6:05 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
If you have a spare hard drive, at this point I would swap it in and reinstall. See how that goes.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 2:02 AM Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
So I did download your suggestion and it worked. It went all the way
through re-install with no problems. On booting for the first time I
got the message fsckd-cancel-msg: Press ctrl+C to cancel all filesystem
checks in progrees. Well it freezes and nothing is happening. It just
stay that way indefinitely. No file checks and unable to use ctrl+C
does not work. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Maureen
On 3/26/21 1:22 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:59:04 -0400
> Maureen L Thomas <silverorb@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> So I decided to re-install debian 10.
>> While doing so I get to the part about the entering the needed rtl
>> files which I have on DVD and on USB. I tried both but neither of
>> them would work. I cannot get it to even come up to a command line
>> to do dmesg and see what the real problem may be.
> I take it that by "rtl files" you mean RealTek firmware blobs for
> RealTek devices.
>
> What I found was that Bullseye (Debian 11) wants the firmware .deb
> package, not the extracted firmware files. This may or may not work on
> Buster (Debian 10). Also it wants the file in the root directory of the
> USB device.
>
> You may be able to install without them if you don't need the interface
> they support to install. You would need some other interface either
> during installation, or shortly after installation to bring the
> firmware package in.
>
> Probably the easiest option: you might try the unofficial with-firmware
> installation images. Depending on your requirements, you should be able
> to drill down from this page:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/
>