Did the hard drive run long enough for linux to start? If you've got a graphical login going, then you might have a problem there. Otherwise you should be ok. One other thing, are you sure the speaker is hooked up? I've had that happen before and not noticed the bios beeps. It's also possible the bios is picky and won't boot without a video card. Jeremy wrote: > How can I run a box without a video card? My video card fan fried yesterday. > The card still works, but something makes bad smells when it runs (I think > it's the fan). > > I'd buy a new card, but the stores are closed today. I might try to salvage > or improvise a fan from my pile of parts, but I was hoping I could just run > the box headless. > > I tried booting without the card, but I can't ping the box. There weren't any > beep codes. The HD light flashed a number of times, but not enough to > indicate a full boot. I can powerdown with a quick press of the soft power > button, so I'm guessing it's either a bios prompt or something early in the > boot process. The mobo is a gigabyte ds3r for core2-quad, and doesn't have > onboard video. > > What would be stopping the box from coming up? Is it a bios prompt, or is > Linux expecting something? > > Jeremy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39