On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:40, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > My thanks to all respondents for their suggestions, but sad to say, I > got no joy. At this time the machine is unusable and I'll probably have > to take it in for repair or just buy a new mobo. I now can't get beyond > the boot stage, it usually dies with a kernel panic either right away or > shortly after startup. Big bummer. >
If there are little brown spots on the top of some condensers on the mobo, then they are fried and you have to get a new one.(unless you fancy soldering multi-layer boards) Apperently some factories saved a few tenths of pennies by using substandard parts. The power-supply is another good candidate for replacement. G
