On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:44:13AM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > So here's a situation for the hardware doctors in the house. > > My Pentium 200 MMX at home seems to be dying. The first warning was > that I got an error message about a possible IO conflict on 2F8 > (IRQ 3?) while boot, but after booting everything worked fine > after booting (including the modem which I think is on IRQ 3). > Next boot, the sytem wouldn't come on at first. When I hit the > power the drive LEDs came on, but no boot messages went to the > screen. Also, the normal boot sounds didn't occur ( beeps, checking > floppy drive, hard disk searching, etc.) I hit the power again, > waited a couple of minutes, when I turned it on it booted and worked > fine (though the IO warning was still there). Then, the last couple > of times I tried to turn it on, it didn't work at all (it acted > just like the other time). > > At first I thought the problems might be heat related since > I have no AC, but I tried this morning when the temp was below > 80, and still no luck. > > So any hints on what I should try? Is it probably my motherboard? I have had a motherboard dying to me this way... I shut down the machine, powered it on 5 minutes later and... Nothing. (it worked flawlessly for over a year and before the last reboot it had a couple of weeks uptime). It happens... florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4