Have you tried swapping out the power supply?

I've found that marginal power supplies cause all manner of weird failures.

Sent from my android device.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter King <peter.king@utoronto.ca>
To: TLUS <talk@gtalug.org>
Sent: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:19
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Unbootability

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:49:24AM -0400, Peter King wrote:

> The CPU is an Athlon XP 2500, on an Asus A7X87 motherboard, with 3GB
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
      Asus A7V8X-X

Sorry; I mangled the name of the motherboard.

I also forgot to mention that I tried all the boot discs out on another
computer, and they all work perfectly well there.

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