[kwlug-disc] Older PC not booting Linux ...

[Ronald Barnes]

Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2022-06-27 17:04:

> I am giving up on the motherboard.
> 
> 
> A few days passed, then on a whim, I decided to poke around the BIOS
>  settings ...

Ha, vindicated!

I didn't believe you when you said you were giving up.



> And it turns out that the motherboard is fully functional if a single
>  onboard component is disabled (the Ethernet LAN controller).
> 
> Using an old PCI Ethernet controller that I had makes it fully 
> functional again.
> 
> The mystery now is why this board worked for many years, but then the
>  LAN controller died?
> 
> Whatever it is, this motherboard is not going to end up in the
> landfill.
Happy ending, congrats on the perseverance.


rb