At 06:09 AM 4/29/99 , you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Someone brought me a system a couple of days ago and explained the
>following,
>
>"I walked over to the system and tried to move the mouse, but it was frozen.
>I decided to reboot the system through the main power switch and then
>nothing would come back on."
>
>I've since taken the system and looked over it, and indeed nothing comes
>on - no post, no tests, nothing. I can hear the hard drive power up though.
>I've stripped it down to the conventional video card and still nothing. I've
>replaced video card, and still nothing. The RAM is fine. The hard disk is
>fine.
>
>Has anyone experienced this before? Any comments are appreciated.
>
>Guido Piraino

If this happened on April 26th, last Monday, I would suspect the computer
has been hit with the CIH virus.    Read all the posts during the last
few days with CIH in the subject line to PCBUILD.   If you have deleted
them, you can read them in our archives at:
       http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html

You can either replace the motherboard or send to the manufacturer for a
new BIOS chip.  Then, partition the hard drive, (only the Primary drive seems
to be effected, the "C" drive), format and reload.

Normally, I would never give such advice, but I have seen too many of these
come into my shop this week to make any other recommendation....





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