my play box has turned into a paper weight

[blindgeek007 at comcast.net]

Testing the memory is a good idea. Let's just start narrowing it down. Given you know the HD is good, if it's not the memory, it's probably either CPU or MB. Sorry for the death of your play box...
> There have been no power spikes that I know  of recently, and the
> machine is plugged into a surge protector.
> 
> I can hear the cpu fan running, so I'm guessing that's ok.
> 
> The machine is an AMD k5 133 MHz with about 40 Mb of ram, made
> somewhere around 1994.
> Thanks.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:33:24PM -0600, RK wrote:
> > Greg...
> > I have found that when playing with possibly broken hardware (especially
> > CPU, memory and motherboards) that it is anyone's guess what could cause a
> > particular problem.  Have you had any power spikes that you know of? Is the
> > CPU fan operating properly, or has is failed on you recently? I would start
> > with the CPU fan, as it is a moving part and is most likely to fail in the
> > first place.  How old is the box? What kind of hardware is it?
> > Be glad to offer any information I can to help.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> 
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