"~misfit~" <misfit@'SPAMTRAP'orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
news:lrMab.152956$JA5.3751828@news.xtra.co.nz...

<Snip old PC tale of woe (been there, done that)>

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.

Could it be that the RESET switch is duff, so its constantly resetting
the system. You'd get a bit of disk thrashing when you power on (as they
POST themselves), but that would be all. Just a thought.
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Steve Charlton                  |There may be intelligent life on other planets
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