> Been there. doen it. also replaced the case too. THAT worked.
 > Aparently my 386 did not want "Hand Me down" Xt cases. it
 > wanted a mini tower. it got it ;) now its happy and talks
 > to everyone. go figure ;)
 
Ah, yes, upgrading the motherboard.  Our 386 board wouldn't fit in our old XT 
case (the connections and slots were in the wrong place. 
 So we bought a mini-tower case and all was well.
 
Wonder if your power supply in the XT case was starting to give out? 
 That might cause some funky operations.
 
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