<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Hill</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@robinhill.me.uk">myth@robinhill.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'd say it's either the CPU or motherboard - I don't think the memory<br>would affect it at that stage (systems will usually get to the POST
<br>stage even without RAM installed). My guess would be the motherboard,<br>though that could have killed off the CPU as well.<br><br></blockquote></div>Thanks
for your reply. I appreciate your points about 1) the memory, and
2) the fact that the motherboard may have killed the CPU. Neither
had occurred to me before.<br>
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