>Heok Hee Ng wrote: > >> Thanks to all that have responded. I don't think the hard drive is at >> fault, because I did not get the flashing question mark at startup. I >> also tried booting from a different hard drive and that produced the >> same symptoms. Same thing with trying to boot from a CD. >> I'm thinking that it could be bad contacts, but I've opened the case >> and removed whatever dust in there with compressed air (I'm actually >> quite sick of opening and closing the case so many times today). >> Whenever I get the mac to startup successfully, sometimes there are >> intermittent freezes during the startup process. This goes away after >> a while. Everything works fine for about an hour, and then it would >> freeze solid, necessitating a restart. >> This isn't the first mobo to die on me. I've had one that died and >> this was its replacement. >> However, now that it's dying again, could there be something wrong with >> my power supply that is frying the mobos? >> >> Heok Hee >>
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