Re: reboot fails

"Frederik" wrote in message > I'm patching up an old pc I got (p1-100, soyo
mobo). First it didn't boot
> and as it reported a faulty bios cmos checksum I flashed the bios. I also
> had to replace the memory as it was faulty.
>
> (The person I got the pc from claims that it fell over in the boot of the
> car when transporting it, which is probably the reason for its faulty
> behaviour. Or am I wrong?)
>
> Now, everything seems to work fine, apart from the fact that the pc
> occasionally does not boot (no display, the hdd is spinning but is not
> reading) and that it cannot reboot. Neither soft, nor hard reboot works.
>
> As I thought the psu was causing the problem, I replaced it with another
one
> (same wattage), but this didn't solve it.
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
> Frederik
>
>

You mobo may be bad.
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