Guido,

I would make sure the CPU is seated correctly in it's socket.  This sounds
like an unseated CPU whereas nothing happens (outside of the hd spinning up)
when powered up.

Hope it's this easy for you!

Tim Klymkow

----- Original Message -----
From: Guido Piraino <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 8:09 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] SYSTEM DARKNESS


> Hi,
>
> Someone brought me a system a couple of days ago and explained the
> following,
>
> "I walked over to the system and tried to move the mouse, but it was
frozen.
> I decided to reboot the system through the main power switch and then
> nothing would come back on."
>
> I've since taken the system and looked over it, and indeed nothing comes
> on - no post, no tests, nothing. I can hear the hard drive power up
though.
> I've stripped it down to the conventional video card and still nothing.
<snip>

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