I’ve set Desktop Sharing, iptux, firefox and thunderbird to boot on startup but now I’m getting this;
I can’t even use the keyboard.
There wasn’t an ‘autostart’ folder so I created one, would that have caused a problem?
Hmm … this is a BIOS message, and nothing to do with Linux … indeed this message is being generated BEFORE even the bootloader is accessed.
You either have a dead keyboard, or a failed keyboard controller on the motherboard.
Things to try …
Make sure the keyboard cable hasn’t come loose/unplugged
another keyboard
a PS/2 keyboard instead of USB, or vice versa
Shutting the PC down … removing the power cable … hitting the power switch to discharge the motherboard capacitors … plugging power back in … trying to boot.
A quick Google suggest that when most peoples Compaq systems display this message, their motherboard tends to fail shortly afterwards.
Good luck … but as I said, this is a HARDWARE failure, and NOT Linux related (or any other OS/softeware) 
Tried a different kbd and that didn’t work, nor did removing the power and pressing the on/off button.
Unless it will boot with a different TYPE of keyboard (USB or PS/2) I’m afraid your system just died.
I suppose you could try a BIOS reset (jumper on motherboard), but I seriously doubt if that will work.
yep, I was using a PS/2 keyboard an changed to a USB one and still nothing.
I suppose you could try a BIOS reset (jumper on motherboard), but I seriously doubt if that will work.
Not sure where that is at the mo’ as I cant get into it, it’s not screwed shut, some sort of clip levers?
As I said … It’s HIGHLY unlikely to work anyway, so start preparing yourself for the fact your motherboard is kaphuzzled.
You’re not going to believe this — it booted up OK (shhh… don’t say anything lol)
Maybe it was the threat of going to try a re-install of the OS :o
OS was nowt to do with it … as I said, it was a message directly from the system BIOS which occurs before ANY software gets loaded.
Threatening it with the BIN may have done it though.
LOL… Already looking on eBuyer for a new PC (bespoke) around £215 price tag at the mo.
I got one of these a couple of months ago for a customer … and Ubuntu 11.10 64bit (and Win7 as a dual-boot :
) installed without any problems:
Zoostorm Desktop PC
- Intel Pentium DC G640 2.8GHz
- 6GB RAM + 500GB HDD
- DVD Writer
- Intel HD
- [b]No Operating System[/b]
£199 including VAT and (economy) delivery.
it’s slightly on the noisy side, but I’ve heard louder PC’s
I’m sure I read somewhere that it was due to them using a 2 wire fan on the CPU (which meant the fan was on permanently), and that fitting a 3 wire fan allowed the fan to be temperature controlled by the BIOS/ACPI … though I didn’t test this.
One I quickly knocked up on the site;
(QF: 108273) Casecom Black ATX Mid Tower Case
(QF: 281919) Asus M5A78L-M LE Socket AM3+ 760G Onboard VGA DVI 8 Channel Audio mATX Motherboard
(QF: 353773) AMD Athlon II X2 250 3GHz Socket AM3 2MB L2 Cache OEM Processor
(QF: 229102) Kingston 4GB DDR3 1066MHz Memory Non-ECC CL7 1.5V X2
(QF: 129233) Samsung SH-D163C 16x DVD-ROM SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black
(QF: 241716) WD 320GB 3.5" SATA-III 6Gb/s Caviar Blue Hard Drive - 7200RPM 16MB Cache
(QF: 390639) Alpine 700W Blue PSU - 12cm Fan 4x SATA
(QF: 176157) Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 Socket 775, 1156, 1155, 1366, AM2, AM3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler
£232.02 in total, I am checking through the board spec to make sure I am getting the correct RAM and CPU and want a decent fan
This is what I want to change on my board to improve performance
(QF: 186428) AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 6MB L3 Cache Cache 125W Retail Boxed Processor £87.05
They don’t do the RAM I need for my board, 4 x 240-pin DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 1066/800/667/533 ECC,Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory so I am having to look elsewhere for that.
Looks like a new monitor too as the one I had connected up to it is now dead (was working a short time ago), changed the fuse too. And another spare in the attich, when I brought that down to test it, I found that the LCD screen was cracked >:(
Well, looks like it has now died, it powers up, flashes the keyboard 3-4 times and does nothing, it’s really strange, the monitor wont even power up?
Test the monitor on another PC.
[EDIT]
It’s more likely the Monitor is fine, but the motherboard has completely failed now.