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From: herrj@valnet (Jonathan R. Herr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Mom's PC Died
Message-ID: <33DmL1w162w@valnet>
Date: 1 Jul 90 05:45:49 GMT
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> So, I am left thinking it may be 1) a lame power supply that just
> isn't doing the job. 2) some problem with the drive cables (not
> likely, but it would be a nice cheap solution :-) ).  3) a problem
> with the (gulp) mother board somewhere.  Since seems somewhat likely
> since I never get through a boot sequence.  
> 
> 					Thanks!!!
> 						Dave Pawson
> 						djp@cs.brown.edu

  All three of your ideas are valid, but there is also the possiblity
that it may be your BIOS ROM has gone bad on you.  Since it is rather
important on bootup, you might consider it, also.  Finding out if this
is the problem may be difficult, though. 8-(

Jonathan R. Herr
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herrj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu