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[colman77]

I set up my homemade server, turned it off, then, after moving it, tried to boot it again. It wouldn't recognize the hard drive, and with no disks in the drives, it told me I had no OS. ctrl+alt+del. Same thing. ctrl+alt+del. Same thing. Turn off/on. Same thing.
I'm SO sure my HD had died. But wait, I can hear it spinning! Start up, and go into the bios. Look around at the settings, and change the option that displays <F2 for network boot>. Not that I thought it would help. Choose save and exit. I turn around to get a drink, and from behind me I hear BEEP.
Astonished, I turn around, and it's booting!
I thought maybe my F2 key was stuck, but it wasn't. In order for my server to boot, I have to change a setting, any old setting, in the BIOS, save and exit.

[xgerryx]

Originally Posted by JohnJ

Not sure if this really happened or not but......

I recieved an email that's going around a couple months ago about a tech who got a call from one of his customers. The customer said that they turned the computer on and it made some really strange noises and then smoke started to come out the back. When the tech arrived he took the case off to have a look inside. Curled up inside the power supply was a small black snake.

It happened:
http://www.wiu.edu/users/jrt111/hissy.html

[Stoner]

I had a Magitronic with a socket 7 mb,Gigabyte GA5AA, and an AMD K6 chip. I upgraded to a K6-500 and although the switches were set correctly, the speakers buzzed no matter which sound card I used. I checked all grounds---A OK.
Searching around, I found that a few people had just a slight overvolt to the sound card. Cheap fix was to run an app in the background so the cpu would draw down the voltage just enough to stop the buz.
I ran Prime 95 when ever I listened to music