~misfit~ wrote:

"Steve Charlton" <steve@nospam.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in 
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"~misfit~" <misfit@'SPAMTRAP'orcon.net.nz> wrote in 
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<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.

Thanks Steve, I've since tried that, disconnected the reset 
switch from the mobo and it made no difference.

I had a stuck power switch do that.  

Cheers though, much appreciated.
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