In a message dated 09/12/1999 11:36:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Hi Guys & Gals,

     I find myself in need of some help.  I think my computer crash big time
 today.  Here is what happen.

     First it froze up, even the mouse pointer would not move.  I tried the
 old Ctl, Alt, Del reset but nothing happened so I pushed the reset button.
 That was all she wrote so to speak.  The monitor went to a black screen, the
 hard drive light went on and the CD light went on.  There it sat, not doing
 anything.  I tried to shut it off but the power button would not work so I
 unplugged it.  I waited for approximately 3 minutes and plugged it back in,
 Nothing.  It just sat there again, lights on but nobody home.  It doesn't
 even go through the Power On Self Test.

     I think maybe the system board, how do you all see the solution to this
 problem.  Any and all help will be appreciated.

 TIA
 john hillen
  >>
Hi,
  This sounds like the symptoms of the Melissa virus (or a similar one), that
corrupts your flash BIOS (and possibly hard drive data as well). With the
BIOS corrupted, you wont even get a power on self test (POST) screen, but the
hard drives will spin up, and fans will run.
  If this is the problem, you will need a new BIOS chip (or get yours
reprogrammed), to get it to POST again. Then you can disinfect the rest of
the system with a good antivirus program, namely the hard drive(s) and any
removable disks that might have been used while the system was infected.
Finally you can try to recover data on the hard drive (hopefully you have a
backup, if so, check it for infection too).

HTH,
Peter Hogan
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