Re: Is it dead?

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From: Mark Napthali
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:00

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Just kick the shit out of it if it work when you are finished it's not dead

John wrote in message <35E0BD24.C7301AD7@inna.net>...
>        My son brought home his malfunctioning P75 Gateway for me to try
>and fix.  The move apparently got it
>working, as it booted ok once set up here.  We backed up the files he
>wanted to save before doing anything
>else, and then it died again.  Nothing comes up on the screen at all.  I
>checked all the cable connections -no
>help.  I replaced the hard drive cable with a new one -no help.  There's
>very little or no hard drive activity on
>boot-up.  The video (on the motherboard) seems to function ok; clean
>blank screen, if the monitor cable is
>disconnected it goes to static.
>        Here's my guesses as to what's wrong:  CPU died (or is not
>making good contact?, didn't check that one
>yet!), OR, the BIOS is bad, OR, the EPROM chip is bad (or loose -got to
>check that one too).
>
>
>
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From: "Mark Napthali" <napthali.mark.mn@bhp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Is it dead?
Date: 1998/08/25
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