On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:57:23 -0600, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Last night as I was rebooting from Linux into WindowsXP, the > machine locked up (in XP). I have pressed the power button for 5 > seconds and it went to sleep. For. Ever. No amount of plugging or > unplugging of various boards and cables could bring it back. > > I do suspect the motherboard: an ASUS A7V600 conveniently just out of > warranty. But I have no proof ;( > > I need a kind and trusty soul that has a working AMD (Socket 472) machine > and is willing to let me test my hypothesis by swapping/exchanging the power > supply and possibly the CPU. Sounds like a fun weekend project, eh? > > Thank you, > florin > I am assuming you tried removing all unnecessary hardware from the system and booting? -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)