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First one to solve it wins...
lol I actuallty HAD started this post as a fun way to use your powers of deduction, or past experience to solve a PC riddle of sorts. BUT, now that I'm tired..
BUT, first one wirth the right diagnosis/remedy wins all the bragging rights!
On with it.
So someone drops off a Dell(ugh)Dimension 4400 in your lap. Says its dead. Not sure what happened but thought the GPU went out or whatever. Just keepit for parts if you want.Ok, cool.
When you crack it open, there are NO dust bunnies....anywhere. Hmmm. Odd. You also find a silly plastic vent shroud hiding a P4 processor as well as:
Documentation
with the exception of only 1Gb (2x512) Crucial PC 2700 non eec SDRAM
(Tiny lil guys) and only a 20Gb barracuda ata. You think well, parts are parts and start pulling sound blaster card ethernet card, and a TINY VGA card named (or made by) 'InsideTNC' sitting in the only AGP lane. FFW:
You return later, and think " this thing looks like it should fire up", so you reinstall everything EXCEPT the cute VGA card, and memory. In the AGP slot, you put an XGI card of recent topic, and trade the mem for what you THINK is better(you need glasses, because you install 512 x2 PC 2100 that woud have run ata whopping 100Mhz. :)
You remedy that,shut her up and when its trying to fire up, the case zaps you! VERY low volt. Just gets your attn. BTW it never posted....lights bells wistles, but no post. Lets replace CMOSbattery, and check PSU. OK.
try again, and ZAP. This is where we stop, pull the plug and wonder:"Now what would cause a case to hold a static charge...?"