That's a fair cop, in my case at least!
One of the motherboards I was having problems with proved to have a dead
sound chip - when swapped for an identical m'board things worked.
Sometimes I think that a really comprehensive flowchart troubleshooting
system for absolute newbies would be helpful - but possibly too big a
task?
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> Well, I gotta say it. I've found that I'm best served if I
> approach problems as caused by user, hardware, OS. In that order.
> It seems to me, people who have the most problems, tend to try and
> approach them in just the opposite order.
>