Dear Detailboy,
>From your description of the events, and the troubleshooting that
you've done, I suspect a hareware problem. As a couple of other
replies have noted, I expect there to be:
A) Loose connector
B) Loose component or card on the motherboard
C) Fractured trace(s) on the motherboard
A and B can be checked pretty easily; re-seat all the connectors
and socketed components and cards. C takes very sophisticated
testing and tracking, and probably isn't worth the time. Your tests
seem to indicate that the hard drive and memory are fine. Strip
them out and use them in another survivor PC.
Not much good news, but yours anyway,
Anthony J. Albert
On 9 Feb 00, at 9:10, Detailboy wrote:
> Oh great hive-mind you're my only hope. A drone-node in our collective
> will not comply. What's wrong with my Gateway 2000 486sx-33, 8MB RAM,
> ISA 2x-CD ROM?
>
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