[Sussex] PSU gone, new installed computer refuses to boot

Christopher Stromblad chris at fragzone.se
Mon Sep 25 15:09:49 UTC 2006


Well, I actually have made a recent kernel upgrade, but that was before
the whole PSU story.

I'll try what you suggested and see if it gives any clues to what could
be wrong.

// Chris

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 15:54 +0100, Jon Fautley wrote:
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> Christopher Stromblad wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I've got a somewhat odd problem. Few days ago my PSU popped, decided to
> > not function. I baught a new one, but now my computer is acting all
> > funny. While memory tests run fine, and bios works and it actually
> > boots... somewhat.
> > 
> > Basically it now hangs at Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
> > Whatever it's supposed to do at this stage will not work.
> 
> Is that a Kernel message?
> 
> Not sure why it'd be hanging there, it's basically just inititalising
> the time source. Try booting the system and passing 'clock=pmtmr' to the
> kernel boot line (2.6 kernels only, iirc) - that'll let you know if your
> timing source is duff.
> 
> To be honest though, if it's hanging when trying to init. the
> timesource, it's time for a new mobo :)
> 
> You've not done a Kernel upgrade recently, have you?
> 
> /j
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