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Revision as of 16:37, 26 August 2005
Welcome to mobo land
- this is about how to test motherboards.
- there is some knowledge needed to test motherboards properly.
here is a list of commands I think one should know. (besides the basics)
- mount(8)
You use this command to mount devices. Like a hard drive or a floppy disk. Some knowledge of the /dev directory is needed but not a whole lot. have fun. mount /dev/fd0 /place/in/file/system/to/mount/device ^ /|\ | this is most of the time /mnt/floppy if you type " umount /dev/fd0 " after that command you would unmount the device from the file system.
- dmesg(8)
This is a very nifty command. It tells all. As in it tells every thing about your system (well most of the time). it is used with the command less(1) a lot. At least with me or grep. Try and type: dmesg | less or dmesg | grep hdc # to see what device is attached to /dev/hdc TRY IT it's fun.
So You have all the parts and a knoppix disk.
- First make sure everything is pluged in yeah.
If you have never booted from a live linux cd or knoppix now is the time to learn. After the system POSTs you will be met by a command prompt it will say some where to press F2 or F3 for a cheat sheet, feel free to do so. or you could just type: knoppix 2 then enter. That command well boot the system into run level 2 which is short for start the system with out the X server.
- next check if the system can see all the hardware and anything else you pluged into it.
hint: use dmesg
- well, what if?
What if what!! It should work right RIGHT! Not all the time is right sometimes It just doesn't work.
hint number two: check for bad capacitors. what are bad caps?? well google it or ask Dave Haskins ;) , but most if the time if it doesn't work then it just doesn't work.