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Do you live in an apartment or something where you could be in close proximity to someone with a similar mouse? read this

I tried a different PS and it was the same. Can a dead bios battery really cause it to not POST? i always thought that the battery just sustained the clock, bios pw and settings and stuff.. but then again i have never had a motherboard die on me before, so this is new. Oh well.. i think...

yeah thats what i am afraid of :-( i have another cpu here that i could theoretically put in there to test the motherboard.. but what if the motherboard is broken and it fries this cpu as well.. can that happen? daaamnit.

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Hey all. If you have any insight for me i would really appreciate it. Heres my problem: My Asus A7A266/TBird 1Ghz system, which has been running perfectly for over a year, refused to boot this morning. From what i can tell, it isn't POSTing.. no beeps no nothing, just blank screen. The...

uninstall the winxp network QoS manager. Apparently by default xp reserves 30% of your bandwidth in order to prevent your machine from being able to slow down the whole network