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Date:	Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:54:00 PDT7
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HELP - no video!

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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:22:54 PDT7, Mark Abramowitz wrote:

>Anyone have any ideas? Did my motherboard go south on me?

Mark,
You have to be very careful with most electronic hardware these days. Due to the
density of the transitors, gates and such, the hardware now-a-days is very sensitive to
static electricity discharge. Did you wear an antistatic wrist strap, when you went inside
your unit? And/or did you carefully ground yourself to the chaisis, before touching any
electonic hardware?

One other possibility is that you cracked something in the motherboard, when you took
off and replaced the fan. I've always found that removing and installing a CPU fan is not
easy. They don't snap in or out easily, at least for me.

I wouldn't play with it any more. If the motherboard is sick you don't want its bad health to
short out any of your PCI hardware.

Sorry for this problem that you are experiencing. I know how it is. Last month I had a
dead motherboard and video card. I believe that the video card went bad and took the
motherboard with it. Good luck in getting a system for yourself online.
HCM

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