~misfit~ wrote:

God I'm sick of helping 'friends' with their PCs. I'm posting 
this here as I had SETI installed on it <G> and I'm having 
trouble resolving it so thought I would draw on the wealth of 
knowledge here.

I need help with this latest one.

A while ago I upgraded an old Kaiyo machine for a (financially 
challenged) friend from an ... 

[snip]

They were pleased as punch with it for months. Then today I 
get a call, "The monitor isn't working". They turn it on, the 
LEDs come on, the HDD clicks a few times and...... nothing.

BTW, next time tell him that gifts are out of warranty as soon 
as they are out of your workshop.  <g> 

[snip]

Previous to this, in the last week or so, he tells me 
sometimes it wouldn't boot but hitting reset a time or two 
fixed it. Until tonight.

If he delayed giving you that information until after all of 
your testing, you should double your fee.  <g> 

I told him to leave it with me. I'm gonna bench-test the 
original mobo tomorrow, seems a good place to start.

Please, my learned friends, do any of you have the slightest 
idea what may be going on with this POS?  ;-)
--
~misfit~

Is the CMOS battery OK?  

Could he have messed up the CMOS settings when he did the 
multiple resets?  

Could it be a heat problem on the CPU?  

Did he admit dropping it? ... or anything else tht might have 
led to a hairline crack in the motherboard?  

Whatever it is ... please let us know.  We like to learn.  

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

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about it.  

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