On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:22:58PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > > how do you know this is the problem, and the motherboard hasn't croaked > in some OTHER 10+ year old crusty mobo fashion ? Because the original poster specifically stated that the box had failed video ram in it? :) While possible that there are other issues at play, I can only go by the information provided by the orignal poster. I've never seen a motherboard from that era that could bypass failed video memory POST results - YMMV. John -- "Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies non-comformity; and non-comformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyality -- so obviously thinking must be stopped" [Call to Greatness, 1954] -- Adlai Stephenson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091217/eaf14718/attachment-0005.sig>