> Troubleshoot it like something was DOA...
> Strip it to the BARE essentials.
> See what happens, Add stuff if it starts working at first...
>
> A POST card is nice if you have, or can beg or borrow one.
>
> If you need more help, just ask, or Google... <grin>
>
> Rick Glazier
>
Rick and all thanks for suggestions.  I gave it one more try and discovered
that in my initial attempts to cleanup the inside of the case - etc. - I had
loosened the CPU fan clamp.  Apparently this or subsequent movement pulled
the CPU out of the socket.  I reassembled things and wonder of wonders
everything came up:^))  Now I just need to redo the paste on the heat sink
and I think I can salvage this older technology (P4 - 3.0 GHz on an
excellent MB).  Need to load a new version of AVG and SPYBOT.

Obviously when I said I had reseated everything I hadn't, I assumed the CPU
was still in the socket as it should have been - shame on me.

Bob Warasila

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