I recently had to borrow the CD-RAW from my 8500. When I put it back in, the computer would fire up, but no video not even a flicker. I can hear the drives spinning up, and if I force a restart from the keyboard, it will restart. I tried hooking up to the video card and the internal video. I do not hear any sounds other than the hard drives initially starting up, then nothing. I did have the computer unplugged for about one week while working on another computer, but I had replaced the battery about 6 months ago with hopefully, a good one. The 8500 has G3/400, with VST UltraTek/66, a OrangeMicro FW/USB, and a ATI 7000. What could be causing it? It was working so well. This is what I get for building a Windows PC for a relative... Andrew
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