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July 2nd, 2004, 04:04 AM
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Driver Terrier
You can run a ram test and a hard drive test booting from floppy - does the machine post everytime?
memtest86
powermax hdd test
Assuming it's out of warranty, open it up and disconnect any and all devices apart from the floppy drive, the vid card and one stick of ram. Get into bios and shut off any and all onboard stuff such as usb, sound, modem, nic etc...
Then add them back one at a time starting with the hard drive first, then cdroms, then pci devices, then the onboard stuff.
While you have it open, examine the main board and cards for any signs of burning or bulging capacitors.
Look at the pic, do you see how the capacitors have rounded tops? They should be flat.
Last edited by NooNoo; July 2nd, 2004 at 04:08 AM.
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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