Blinking keyboard lights a sign of distress?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Alan Jackson wrote:
> My son's box just went belly-up. It had a blank screen, was unresponsive,
> and the two rightmost led keyboard lights were blinking.

In order of decreasing liklihood, i'm saying its memory, CPU, mobo.

>
> He is running Mandrake 9.
>
> What do the blinking lights mean?

I thought that there was some funky kernel patch about a year ago that let
the LEDs do morse code (seriously).

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