\t\t\t\tI spent the weekend doing computer repair in Santa Clara. Mrs. Bennett’s computer got itself into a mode where it wouldn’t boot. When the power was turned on, the fans all spun on the CPU, the video card, and the case, but it woudn’t complete the POST, didn’t make a beep, and didn’t sync the monitor. So no feedback from the monitor, and no beep codes. After swapping out this thing and that, I got it to work quite nicely, but the bad part wasn’t what I thought, so let’s have a contest and try and guess what the problem was.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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