On Sep 19, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

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> On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Doug Burton wrote:
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>> I had just recently replaced the OS drive with one from an identical
>> DA because the original drive went south.  Now another drive?  I
>> thinking a bad on board IDE controller or RAM, anyone else have an
>> opinion?
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> Check out the RAM...this is a common cause of this issue.
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> --  
> Bruce Johnson

Okay, originally I had two sticks of 256M RAM installed.  Removing one  
and attempting to boot I get a bong, but then no video.  HD's don't  
sound like they are coming up.  Taking out that stick and putting the  
other one in I get a bong and then it tries to boot with gray screen,  
etc. but then the HD's all power down and the machine shut off.  Does  
this mean both sticks are bad or is it just that the HD got corrupted  
by the bad stick of RAM and needs to be replaced?  I have another HD I  
can use to try it.

Just a message from Doug...


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