I have had reboots and spontaneous shut off from bad power supply.  Although you
mention switching PS's the inability to start points to power supply or switch.

Possibly check the connector from the switch to MB. Reseat it. Hope this helps.




On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:49:13 EDT, Dan Grasley wrote:

>Hi, lately, I have been having a problem with my computer.  It will reboot
>for no particular reason at all.  I'll be surfing the net or something and
>BAM!  it reboots.  Here's what I have in my machine:
>AMD K62-400, 128 MB PC100 RAM, Matsonic MS620S Motherboard, 8MB PCI S3 Virge
>video card, Sound Blaster AWE 64 sound card.  I used to have a Creative
>Blaster Banshee 16MB AGP video card, but for some reason the memory on the
>card died.  I've swapped power supplies, tried placing the video card in a
>different PCI slot, tried different memory...nothing seems to work.  Also,
>if I shut my computer off, then attempt to turn it back on, nothing but the
>test pattern comes up on the monitor.  The machine IS on but does not give
>any indication that it has even went through POST (I don't hear the initial
>beep).  The monitor (KDS Avitron 15" .25dpi) works fine on other machines.
>Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks in advance.  Dan G.
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