Re: [cobalt-users] Dead Raq 2 ?

[SteelHead <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:42, William Moore wrote:
> I bought a raq 2 on ebay about 2 months ago.  when it
> came in it worked.  I have had it on the shelf since
> then.  I went to fire it up so I could reload the OS, (
> Finally got time ) and it turns on but nothing comes on
> the display.  all characters are just dim blocks.  the hd
> does not fire up but not sure if it does part way thru
> boot or not.  any ideas ?
>
> Bill

I would suggest that you find or create a restore cdrom 
from the iso (archives have urls),(rumor has it if you cry 
just right to sun they will ship you one) match it with an 
approved NIC on a host pc, create a 100mb network 
connection (10mb won't work in my experience) through a 
hub/switch/direct connection 
(http://userpages.aug.com/bbarnes/tools/Cat5.htm) and try 
to restore the hd to raq2 software.

If it fails, tell us where and I am pretty sure some 
intelligent person on the list will offer more assistance 
according to what you discover.

good luck
Bill