At 18:21 -0400 7/25/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I purchased a 7300 from the list and it worked fine. I was getting it for a
> friend who only had PCs. When I delivered it, it chimed but would not
>boot. I
> opened it up even the swing up section and found one of the PCI
>closures lying
> on the MB. I thought it would be ruined, but upon removing and
>replacing the
> PCI metal pieces in its place, it worked fine.
I've been fooling around with a copuple 8500s. When I don't get the CPU
back in place tight enough, neither will boot past the bonnngg!
Fiddle with it, push harder, pull it out and re-seat it and voila (wa-la!)
HTH,
Paul
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