[H-GEN] technical problems

[Kristy Ferrari]

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>2)
>(different machine on this one)
>Intel Celeron 366, 32mb RAM Trident 4mb 9750 AGP Video card 4.3gb HD
>
>This machine refuses to start up period, every time I plug everything in
>and turn it on the machine sounds like it is starting up properly, nothing
>comes on the monitor though, and it just flashes with an orange light.
>
>From listening inside the case the machine doesn't boot up any further
>into anything. A few times I have taken everything out of the case and
>remounted it all and tried to clean everything to make it work.
>
>All this will sometimes suceed in doing is to let the machine boot
>up. Then however a slight bump on the table/unit/floor will cause the
>machine to hang and then sometimes restart. After this happens the machine
>will refuse to restart and the monitor will go back to flashing and
>refusing to boot up.
>
>I have tried a selection of different other working video cards in the
>machine with no luck, I have had the ram chip working another box and the
>monitor is also working correcly. So I am guessing the problem is with the
>board or the case/CPU.


I have had this problem repeatedly with my computer, as some Humbuggers can
testify when I get frustrated by the fact that it works perfectly fine at
home, then take it to a humbug and the thing doesn't work. The computer
would produce no beeps and there would be power to everything, but the
monitor light would just flash and wouldn't actually receive any input.
After many hours of taking all cards out and replacing them one at a time
lead to the discovery that it was actually the daughterboard that the cpu
was on wasn't seating correctly. This was also why a gentle bump would
freeze the machine. Unfortunately there's nothing that I can do about it,
it just helps knowing that it's the only thing that I have to pull out and
reseat when it doesn't boot :)


Kristy

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