At 08:08 PM 7/19/98 , Joel Bluming wrote:
>Dear Listers,
>I left a 486x100 on over the weekend to test my remote dialup setup. It
>worked fine one day, and not the next. When I arrived home I found
>(obviously) that the machine was frozen.
>When I tried to reboot nothing. No post. I swapped in a known good CPU of
>the same type (Intel DX4 100) - no go.
>The drive is spinning, The fans are working.
>Where should I begin? Motherboard, power supply, what?


This one depends upon what you have on hand to use to verify
the system, (do you have an extra power supply or motherboard?)...

I would strip the system down to the basics:   motherboard, cpu, ram,
power supply and video card.  If it still does not fire, it would depend
on what you have on hand to swap it out.  I would mostly suspect the
motherboard...  I would swap that out first, then the ram, then the power
supply, (I list the power supply last as you state that the CPU fan is running
and it is rare that a PS is bad if it is putting out any power).   Once you can
get the basic system to fire...  then it is a matter of adding each component
back till you are sure that each works.


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