Barry,
Sounds like giving up on it was the right choice. :)  I agree, it sounds
like something went poof on that mobo and it's not worth the time on that
kind of machine to try and troubleshoot it. When i was working the repair
bench at a PC store around here a few years ago, we'd have a constant stream
of Pac Bells and Compaqs that just went terminal like that.
Speaking of P200s, I had a lucky day today. :) I scored a pretty well
equipped P200 in good working condition that was actually going to be thrown
out. Guess whats going to be used as a linux box here at home. :)

Glenn


> Glen,
> > There really is still Pac Bell tech support? I'm amazed! :)
> >
>
> Well sort of. NEC has some third line tech on chat that reads verbatim out
> of a tech manual. No deviation. In my case it was to tough for him so of
> course he was trying to re-direct my problem to their Premium Pay Service
of
> course.
> As for this computer I told the client that it went away. I ended up
selling
> her
> an old 200 pentium I was using as a backup to a backup..... I don't think
> that changing the bios would normally result in this. I think there was a
> terminal inherent problem with the MOBO and it finally went .
>

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