[Bglug] acer pc problems

[Andrew Howlett]

chris:

i had the same problems with that acer. i tried a known good power supply and memory so i think it is either a bad cpu or a bad mainboard.

later,
andrew.

On 1 Jun 2010, at 9:19 AM, Chris wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am out of town, I have asked my Wife to drop off two computers at the
> United way bldg.
> One is a black Acer desktop I was unable to get into bios it belongs to UW
> the other is a white Tower with parts to build a pc that Peter graciously
> gave to me.
> I tried to use a Sata HDD, cd, dvd and floppy but with this machine I was
> also unable to get into bios to set CD 1st Boot.
> I have put parts inside tower and a box with MB Ram and IDE HDD.
> I am responsible for the scratch in one corner over screw hole it was
> covered heavily with green, I believe this corner is why it will not boot
> into bios.
> 
> Thanks any help trouble shooting my parts.
> 
> See you all next Month
> 
> Chris.
> ps the last thing I did was try to remove heavy green from corner.
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