"Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl@nac.net> wrote in message
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~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.

If only that was the case with this system. It's AT format :-(
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