Mick Lazic wrote in a message to Russell Tiedt:

 RT> I have a dead system here ATX gigabyte mobo 750Mhz with 128M RAM, and it
 RT> just
 RT> does not want to boot up, you switch it on and nothing comes up on the
 RT> screen, I have pulled all the cards and the CD-ROMS, and all it does is
 RT> chech
 RT> the HDD and the CD-ROMS, does not check the floppy drive at all,
 RT> but then
 RT> that might be turned off in the bios setup.

 RT> What next. :-((

 ML> I'd remove or swap memory stick(s) first and if it won't work, I'd
 ML> try another CPU.

If it's checking drives as he says,  my guess would be that the CPU is
probably working somewhat...

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