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to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2003-01-17 21:49:06
subject: Dead system

Hello Roy.

16 Jan 03 20:00, you wrote to Mick Lazic:

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

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

My feeling is something small and stupid is the fault, but I am not able to 
nail it down. :-(((

Russell

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