Any suggestions, please? -UPDATE - BUT JOY

[Christopher Chan]

> In my Humble opinion, after over 50 years of repairing electronic
> devices, 38 years at a large TV station, 5 years for Philips, etc.
> Lily is correct, a large percentage of "electronic" problems are
> actually physical. Bad connections, grounds not made, bad sockets, etc.
> The first thing I would do would be do get the computer down to the
> barest configuration possible. No graphics card, no IDE card, etc.
> Actually unplugging and re-inserting every connector and chip
> possible, including the RAM cards. Molex connectors aren't particularly good,
> especially the larger version. The newer 1mm spacing connectors are very good.
>
> Anyways that's my 2 cents, or is it sense?? ;-) Eh?
>

/me stares into space as he wonders how many phones, boards and other 
stuff could have been simply fixed by some judicious pushing of chips.