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Mike Bridges <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Aug 1998 07:44:00 -0500
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Mark Rode wrote:
>
> Are you positive it has power ? The power supply is good and you have a
> good connection ? Put a meter on the power leads and see if you have the
> correct voltages.If your sure you have power start swapping out components
> and / or testing your existing ones in other boards until you find the one
> part  that is causing the problem. Switch the Ram.....then the video
> card...then the CPU. ....if nothing will work but these components will
> work in other boards then  the board or the CPU is most probably bad.
> I will tell you from personal experience this is exactly how a bad CPU will
> behave...you will get nothing ...not even a beep..however this is extremely
> rare.
> On average board manufacturers experience a 3 percent failure rate and CPUs
> experience a fraction of 1 per cent failure rate.....in fact I have
> personally only seen one truly bad CPU.
>
> mark
>
Mark,
It has power,the video card is good as is the ram.They are the same ones
that were running on the other board and cpu yesterday.Like you,I have a
hard time believing it would be the new motherboard or CPU but don't
know what else to try.
Thanks,
Mike

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