Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:25:40 -0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic: BIOS boot problems
>From: "David Hettel"
Hi David,
Yeah... David touched on this topic too. Sounds like an easy enough thing
to do. I just tried repeating my cold/hot expereiment. After the second
successful full boot after heating up the system, I left it outside for a
couple of hours. Sure enough, when I brought it in, it began freezing
again.
However heating the darned thing up again didn't bring it back to life this
time. Oxidized connections could very well be an issue. Have you ever had
any luck with those cans of oxidation removing spray? Right after they
banned using freon (sd?), my friend said that nothing else really worked as
well. I've tried the stuff from Radio Shack in the past few years, but have
had little luck with anything I tried it on.
>If I where you, I would try pulling the cable to your hardrive, from the
>motherboard and running a pencile eraser over the pins, on the MB and the
>hardrive.
I'm not quite sure how I'd get an eraser inside of the sockets on the MB, or
in the one on the HDD... let alone inside the plugs on the cables. Perhaps
a really tiny mechanical pencil eraser... or I can turn one down on a lathe
;-)
>Also any chips that are in sockets on the mother board, I would remove, and
>reinsert, one at a time.
There's one... the BIOS chip. That'd be a likely target.
>Also pull the video card and lightly run an eraser over it's pins. Your
>trying to remove the surface oxidation.
You know... I've been having some odd video events happen in the course of
troubleshooting this thing. Both the CMOS setup screen, and the ScanDisk
screen will go black and white at times, loosing their blue. I booted into
Windows at one point, and EVERYTHING was black and white!
Thanks for the input David!
Matt
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