Posted by David McCall on 01/03/08 20:21

"nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote in message
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> When's the last time you opened up the tower and Alladin box and
> dusted them out and re-seated all the boards? Ours looked like a cat
> had raised kittens in there, it was so full of dust, which inhibits
> component cooling and leads to flakey behavior. After the hardware is
> physically cleaned, run an old fashioned drive cleaning, kill off old
> files you don't need, free up C drive space, run your disk utils to
> see how fractured your files are. When you reboot, be sure there is
> already a video signal and burst running into the box.
>
Thank you again. I'll try all of that when I get back.

I did open the Alladin and blow it out and wiggled what I could without a
complete disassembly, but I didn't get to the computer yet. I may just
rebuild it if I can find the software and the drivers for the SCSI board.

David

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