Hi all:

Note: This is a second repost. No responses on the original. Please
      sound off if you have any pertinent advice or solutions. :)

 I recently recieved an old 486DX4/100 standard multimedia system with
32 Megs of ram. I was told that it had intermittent video problems, but
that everything else was fine.I proceeded to check out the system for
probs at that point. Right off the bat I found that the A drive wasn't
being recognized.I changed out the drive and rebooted. Same problem. I
changed the ribbon cable out. Same prob. I then swapped out the floppy
control drive. Same prob. At this point I continued on and got to the
video card. I powered down and took off the monitor cable for
inspection. I found the reason for that problem was a bent pin in the
monitor cable. I straighten it back as much as possible and plugged it
back into the video card. From this point on no rom basic beep or video
whatsoever.Since then I have changed out video cards,ram and just about
everything else except the mobo and chip. I also noticed that the hd's
no longer are spinning up. This seems to me to be a power supply prob.
However, I have checked the 2 voltages from the power supply to the mobo
and they are correct and constant. I have even changed out power
supplies and still nothing, DOA! Let me add at this point that I had a
anti-static guard on all the time I was troubleshooting the mobo.Chances
of shorting out because of static are pretty slim.

At this point I have run out of options. I am just about ready to toss
the mobo and get another one. Anyone have an opinion or remedy?

TIA

Barry Clark


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