I love this suggestion, but if the wife won't let you order Pizza anymore
because you maxed out the credit cards buying that new Pentium, then you can
just fold and stratigically place pieces of cardboard... and if your really
thinking you can right down vital info on those as well (HD cylinders & heads,
BIOS passwd, your wife's birthday... etc...)

--
Doug Lumpkin
PacInfo Internet
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"David A. Witt" wrote:

> Next time you order a pizza, take the little (doll house table I call it)
> and trim it and slide it under the motherboard for support. Never thought of
> chopsticks. Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James E. Griffin <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] My Tale of Woe - Gateway Video (Motherboard?)
> Problems
>
> > "Villano, Paul" wrote:
> >
> > Paul, what you describe is a classic problem when video signals don't
> > get to the monitor for some reason. Could be a bad card, mother board
> >or
> > a bad connection.
> >
> > > I called Tech Support at Gateway.  They said the video card must be
> > > loose and that I should try reseating it.<snip> got the gray
> > > screen again except it momentarily switched to light blue as if
> >trying
> > > to show the Windows screen.  <snip> back to gray and white
> > > stripes.  You could see the hard drive chunking away, and it tries to
> > > boot, but you can't see anything.
> >>
> > I'll snip the rest of the message to preserve bandwith. One problem to
> > watch out for is putting too much torque on a mother board when you're
> > plugging stuff into slots. You can EASILY break a connection or the
> > board itself with too much force. You may well have had a bad video
> > board, which is why gateway had you try another slot.
> >
> > At this time, you may have both a broken board AND a bum video card;
> > don't be too hard on gateway OR yourself. As price pressures on
> > manufacturers has increased, motherboards have physically gotten
> >thinner
> > and thinner -- costs less to manufacture. You've really got to watch
> >the
> > motherboard as you're plugging boards into slots -- I've been known to
> > use wood (disposable chopsticks no less) or plastic shims to keep from
> > flexing a mother board too much.
> >
> > You can use off the shelf parts but why pay for something you don't
> >have
> > to?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jim Griffin
> >
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