May I add a bit of my $0.02 to Mark's post?

I have see exactly problem some years ago, back to that time, I had a guy
who returned a mobo said it won't post, however, I couldn't repeat the fault
at my workshop.  Unless we worked out that at his well air-conditioned
computer room (in a big company), the temp was much lower than my no
air-condition workshop.

This could be a problem that some where on mobo, there is a broken
connection, that only get connected when it's warm. In my case, it was some
where around CPU socket area.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "meanshoes" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:18 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] when it's warm it runs


I very rarely turn my system off at all, so when I shut it down overnight
"not sure what made me do it" I remembered why I never turn it off. for some
reason when my system is cold it takes many , many attempts to boot up or
just until it is good and warm.......has anyone ever experienced this
before. I always was under the impression they would operate better if they
could be kept on the cool side of things.

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