From: "Brent Nordick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> However, a brand new maxtor drive has failed to solve
> anything - the machine is back to failing to boot
> after only one day (is this a windows failure record?)
>
> Does anyone have some suggestions for diagnostic tools
> to check out the hard drive, ram, power supply,
> motherboard, and/or anything else you can think of to

Tools?  No.  Troubleshooting help?  Sure.  First off, when you say that "the
machine is back to failing to boot" are you saying that there actually /was/
a time when it would boot with the new Maxtor hdd?  If so, were you able to
fully install an OS, boot into it and work with it?

When you say "fail to boot" what exactly do you mean?  Are you seeing any
error messages on your screen (OS errors or BIOS errors)?  Any lights on the
computer (not the monitor)?  Any noise (hdd spin-up or fans) from the
computer?

Matt W.


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