Re: Help! System hosed.

2004-10-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Greg, You wrote: > > Try a LiveCD. Then beatup the machine a bit see if it is heat related or > Video is bust or some such. Video is 'on board' the motherboard, so it is new, not from the old system. I have an old copy of Knoppix, but it can't handle the new video, apparently, and will not sta

Help! System hosed.

2004-10-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Last Friday, the clip holding my CPU heatsink in place broke. Naturally, the CPU got overheated and fried. On Tuesday, I got a new case, power supply, motherboard, CPU and memory. I moved my HD and floppy to the new case and installed a new CDRW/DVD drive. Then, I powered up the system. It