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by thisisjasononhn 1357 days ago
First day in my visit to Paris this summer, I passed by a Navigo machine that seemed to be stuck in a locked boot state. I guess the internal IDE drive died if it was stuck searching.

Image: https://i.imgur.com/N3oD09H.jpg

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  Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, An Energy Star Ally
  Copyright (C) 1984-2003, Phoenix Technologies, LTD

  **** SOM-4487 BIOS A3.02C (2009/06/02> ****

  Main Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz(100x10.0)
  Memory Testing: 491520K OK +32768K Shared Memory

    Memory Frequency For DDR266
  Detecting IDE drives ...

  Press DEL to enter SETUP
  11/06/2008-i855-W83627HF-6A69YAKEC-00
Just interesting what's powering systems like these!