> Power Supply and board connectors checked with Voltmeter and all
> power is appropriate to needs...
>
> Does it sound like a fried ROM BIOS?....any suggestions happily
> entertained.

        No, a bad BIOS would probably mean no post at all.

> BTW...stripped the machine down to only video/memory and floppy and
> still got the same.

        Did you try to disable the IDE controller on the MB? It might be that is
the problem, try that, if that doesn't work, open up the case and clear the
CMOS, that should work, if that doesn't than the problem might be more
serious. Make sure you have the right drive parameters, try entering them
manually, a bad IDE controller has shown the same kind of symptoms on one of
my systems. Then again, so has memory, so try that too. Hope this helped,
TTYL