[PLUG] Hardware puzzle of the day - desktop won't boot

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Sep 19 12:59:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, David Fleck wrote:

> At this point, the only common factor I can come up with is the CPU, so
> I'm going to take a chance on a $25.00 recycled Athlon chip and see if
> that brings the system back to life.

David,

   Please let us know the results of this trial. I suspect the CPU because I
had similar symptoms in a system and it was quite frustrating to try
everything else with no positive results. We just don't think the CPU will
fail if it has been running for a while.

Rich

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