On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Nate Carlson wrote:

> The next day, she said that the P2-333 locked up, and she went to reboot
> it. When she rebooted it, it just started beeping (it's the POST beep..
> didn't write down the sequence of beeps yet.). She called me, and I told
> her something probably went bad. Funny thing is, two days later, the P75
> started developing problems with it's printer, and then all of the sudden,
> it locked up, when she tried to reboot it, it did the exact same thing as
> the P2-333.

There is a virus out there (so many viruses, too many names, sorry I don't
remember which one) that flashes your BIOS when certain conditions are
met. Definitely a possibility in this case.  Browse around on SARC and you
can probably find the gory details.

-Brian