Hello Gene,

Unfortunately, if you have replaced about everything else, I would begin
to suspect the motherboard or perhaps the CPU, but my guess would be the
motherboard. If it shuts down after only 5 seconds and won't boot, it is
not the OS, you have tried different disks and memory and PSU. About the
only other thing that might be left is the video card, but that seems
far fetched to me, however a cheap video card is less expensive to try
than a new motherboard.

Russ Poffenberger
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> -----Original Message-----

> Hello List,
>
> We are having a problem getting the mobo (Intel D865 GBF,
> P4-2.6 MHz) to boot. We are using Windows XP PRO. SP2 was
> downloaded about a month ago with no problems.
>
> 1. With all the drives disconnected, and the memory removed,
> the mobo will run without shutting down.
>
> 2. After adding back the memory, it will start to boot but
> shut down after about 5 seconds.
>

SNIP

> 4. We have tried replacing the memory, power supply, and the
> battery but the problem has not been resolved.
>

SNIP

> 6. installing a new Maxtor hdd and installing windows XP pro
> was successful, however, we still have the boot problem (that
> can be corrected by reinstalling the battery before each boot).

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