"Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl@nac.net> wrote in message
news:3F6BACA0.E1CF2FB8@nac.net...

~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>

I know, I'm a sucker.

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>

No, he told me at the begining, I just forgot to write it 'til later in the
post.

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?

I'll try changing it but as I've changed mobos I can't see it being the
problem. Even with no CMOS battery most PCs will POST.

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

Could it be a heat problem on the CPU?

No, it's fine.

Did he admit dropping it? ... or anything else tht might have

led to a hairline crack in the motherboard?

Apparently it's just been sitting in the same place as always.

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

Will do Martin, thanks for taking the time to respond.
--
~misfit~



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