> Yes, I did remove the battery, but didn't power it on with the battery > out. I'll give that a go before trying it with another graphics card.
Unless the battery is a dead-short (never seen that in a "coin cell" before) that won't do anything. The suggestions of stripping down the system are good: that technique will even allow the solution of multiple simultaneous hardware failures (seen that twice, solved that way) Sometimes you've got to go to the extent of pulling the motherboard/power supply from the case. There's a threaded standoff near where the BIOS chip usually sits that can ground the traces associated with the BIOS chip. JKB -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
