I would remove the modem card. Just give it a go. About last week, I had an interesting problem, I was building a PC, but it won't boot at the first time, the message (it has a talking mobo - Aopen mobo with Dr. voice feature) was "your CPU may have a problem", so I changed another CPU with the same message. As soon as I pulled all card but video card out (and had to clear COMS too), the PC worked. If I put the modem card in, the mobo said "your CPU may have a problem" again (changed another modem solved the problem). I still don't understand why modem card can do "damage" like this, but this makes me "hate" internal modem more. Jun Qian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Tiwana" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:17 AM Subject: [PCBUILD] does not boot up at al > But when I brought it home, the modem card was not installed, I opened the > computer and iinserted the card in one of the bays. > Now when I booted it up, it would not go beyond the noise of the fan., does > not go to HD or A drive. > It was working alright two hours before when I bought it. > I kept it in my car in the cold for 90 minutes or so on my way home. I did > not drop it anywhere. > When I inserted the modem, I had to open the case. I touched the steel case > with my hands, so > it cant be the electricity in my hands. So what lead to its failure. > the fella who sold it to me says it could be the failure of the mother board. PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html