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Article #638What are my odds?
From: Mark Anderson
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 04:43
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 04:43
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Recently I got a little drunk and I was messing with this P4 w/ 512M RAM and I must have bumped something and it wouldn't load a kernel so I started messing with the memory sticks and then it wouldn't even turn on. Well, I think the power switch works because the fans go and I hear one beep and my mouse lights up for a second. Then I have to do the 5 second hold on the power button to turn it off. It doesn't talk to the monitor at all. Although this PC was old, I had it serve a purpose and now it doesn't work. Microcenter has a $99 P4 512M PC for sale that would replace this thing easily. But they have P4 chips for $9.99 and since I took the chip out already, I'm wondering: Is it worth it to gamble on the $10 chip if that's the cause of the problem? Or should I just get the $100 Microcenter PC and be done with it. I'd hate to put this nice HP case into the landfill. If the processor has a 1/2 chance of being the problem then this might be a good bet. If the odds that it's a processor problem is less than 1/10 then I should forget it.
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