Can't boot Linux after motherboard change

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 20:45 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:34:00 -0700
> Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> 
> > I'm starting to believe I have another defective motherboard :-(
> 
> Download lots of different distros live CDs and try them.
> If none of them work, bad motherboard might be a possibility.
> (Or memory not plugged in all the way, or bad memory,
> etc - always hard to guess for sure).
Did the OP check the bios settings? Something may be set incorrectly?
Reset the BIOS if possible and set defaults. If that does not work, the
MB is most likely faulty, or something else (harddisk?) got toasted too.
Louis