Odd hardware problem

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Billy SG McCarthy <reshippie at yahoo.com> writes:

> Monday night, I shut my computer down to give it a
> rest.  Tuesday I tried to turn it back on, and it
> wouldn't.
> 
> It won't boot, won't POST, won't even give me the BIOS
> screen.  There is power going to the MoBo, and both of
> the CD drives, and both HDDs are spinning when I turn
> it on; whether or not the IDE cables are connected.

Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago, right after a power outage.
After a google search for my motherboard's specs, I found a suggestion 
that
the cpu fan might be the problem. Sure enough, after I replaced the cpu 
fan,
the machine worked again.


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