"Keith A. Wiley" wrote:

> I have an 8500/120 that has me stumped. When I try to power it up it chimes
> but that's all (hard drive is spinning). The odd thing is when I shut it
> down (via the power button) and then boot it up again, it works fine.
> Stable, no crashes. If I shut down and  let it sit for 5 minutes or more,
> then I get the chime and blank screen again. Everything is seated, I've
> swapped the RAM and the cache, changed the hard drive and played with the
> termination. I'm about to look through the yellow pages for witch doctors.
> Anyone have a guess?

Are they full of RAM and is the memory control panel's memory test on?

Is the PRAM battery known good?

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