I have a Pentium II computer that is about 4 years old (ASUS P2L97 motherboard, 233 MHz.) that has problems starting. What I mean is that there will be nothing to the monitor, until I hit the reset button on the system unit multiple time - then the light on the monitor turns from yellow to green and the computer starts to boot.. I originally thought it could be a monitor problem, so I switched monitors. No Dice, same problem. It even appears to be getting worse (takes more and more times hitting the reset button).
1) Could it be a video card problem? I tried another video card - no change in the problem.
2) a motherboard problem?
3) CPU? (I borrowed another CPU and it wouldn't start either)
3) I over-clocked the CPU a bit (from 233 MHz to 291 MHz) about a year ago - could this be a link to the problem? I haven't had a problem until now.
4) any other ideas what is wrong?
Using advice of others from this newsgroup, I removed the CPU, all cards, RAM chips and power connection and cleaned the dust out of them. I also removed the motherboard and cleaned it as well. I re-seated any wire connection I could find. I am running out of ideas!
Does anyone know any good diagnostic software that I could use to check out the motherboard or other hardware?
Cory
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