Well, Rick, something has had an effect!!

I removed the battery, kept it out for 2-3 minutes and replaced it - now the
fans just run for about 1 second and then they stop - New power supply is
justified, I think, as suggested by Carol in a separate e-mail.

I will let the list know the result

Thanks

John O'Regan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Dempsey #3" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] [PCBUIL] The fans are still working


> okay before spending any money please do a little research and find out
> where the CMOS jumper is on the motherboard.  or simply remove the battery
> for a few minutes and put it back in.  this will reset the system's BIOS
to
> it's factory default state.  i have had many people messing with bios
> settings who came to me with their arms up "everything has power but it
does
> nothing".  big causes of this are altered CPU/RAM timings, which will
render
> everything useless until they are reset.
>
> i've never had something wrong because it was "loose" and you seriously
have
> to fry a cpu before it wont work.  if something has been zapped with
enough
> electricity it will be dead.  test everything in another computer
> (carefully) and try booting with different combinations of hardware (cpu +
> ram only, cpu+ram+hdd, etc)
>
> just my 2 cents.
>
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