I've had these symptoms with both bad memory and also with memory that had
come slightly loose in the socket.  It also will happen if the memory
builds up a layer of oxidation between the contacts and the memory DIMM or
SIMM.  If he has multiple DIMMs, Try with one and then the other alone to
see if one stick only is problematic.

Doug


At 1/1/01 07:48 PM, Brady C Burke wrote:

>        I am looking at a IBM AMD K6 333 for a friend of my sons they said
> that
>they were playing a game and it quite.  I got it to boot with a boot disk
>and looked at the hard drive there were no files just directories ran a
>virus scan from floppy disk and it came up negative.    When I went to
>reload the system it quit booting from the floppy. When I start the system
>the power supply fan starts the hard drive spins up the light on the cd
>flashes but it won't boot from the floppy.  I checked the voltage to the
>disk drives and have 11.9 volts and 5.2 volts.  I tried changing the video
>card and checking all the connectors. I get no beep codes and nothing on
>the monitor . Any help would be
>appreciated.
>

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