[Bglug] acer pc problems

[Chris]

Andrew, and everyone, Thanks very much for the troubleshooting help.
Chris.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Howlett <andrew at howlett.net> wrote:

> 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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