Re: Locked Up Computer

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: R <http://www.dracomp.com/~r>
 > Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:38:54 -0400
 >
 > No luck so far.  The monitor green light stays on.  I'm beginning to 
 > suspect that the hard drive powers down as I can bring up the system even 
 > after the screen goes black for a short while but then the keyboard locks 
 > up after that (I'm not sure how long after that).  I checked the BIOS 
 > settings for any power down/disables after a period of time and they were 
 > all disabled (not active).  So I'm wondering if there is a setting some 
 > where I'm missing.  Also I had the HDB drive go bad so I removed it and 
 > removed HDB out of MTAB.  Is there any other plac it needs to be removed 
 > from?  Boot up shows only HDA on partition check.

No.  The other mount points (HDB) will simply be inaccessible, but you
shouldn't edit /etc/mtab -- only /etc/fstab.  That's the important one.

Is your conclusion that the keyboard stops working due to the fact that
you can CTL-ALT-DEL for a short period and reboot the machine?

You could try:

$ setterm -blank 0

to disable the monitor blanking.  (Do "man setterm" for more options.)

 > So how are you doing?  Anything new?

A meeting today with a recruiter for a part-time contract job.

 > Stay well,
 > ME