[wplug] Fried by static?

[Jonathan S. Billings]

Scott F. Kiesling wrote:

>Machine and distro: IBM T42, Gentoo
>
>Problems:
>BIOS seems to have done some weird resetting:
>	Time was reset after zap
>	Tries to netboot
>No sound -- "can't find /dev/dsp"
>No USB (when trying to mount a USB drive, I get " special
>	device /dev/sda1 does not exist"
>  
>
It sounds like the CMOS was corrupted.  resetting the CMOS might be 
possible, although I am not sure.  The BIOS stores it's values in the 
CMOS, so it's possible that your sound and USB problems might be as 
simple as the BIOS reset their state to turned off.

Of course, if the CMOS was corrupted, then other components might have 
been damaged.  Use memtest86 to test the memory for problems (I keep it 
in my grub.conf, and on a spare Floppy).  Check to see if the USB and 
sound devices actually exist on the PCI bus by running the program 
"lspci" (usually in /sbin).

--
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>