Mike Hicks wrote: > > Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > > > > So here's a situation for the hardware doctors in the house. > > > > My Pentium 200 MMX at home seems to be dying. > [snip] > > So any hints on what I should try? Is it probably my motherboard? > > Hmm. Try pulling out all of the cards in the system. Leave the memory > in. Turn on the system. Presuming that your video card is a card and not > onboard, you should hear some beeps (often 8). Start adding pieces back > in, until the system doesn't work again, or maybe it'll start working > again.. > > If you couldn't get anything to happen when all of the pieces were taken > out, then you most likely have a problem with the memory or the > motherboard. Make sure the memory is seated properly, and maybe try to > borrow some RAM from someone for testing. > If after doing all of the above it still doesn't boot, try clearing the BIOS (usually you do this by shifting a motherboard jumper to an alternate position and then shifting it back).