CompuServe Messages

Don, Thanks for the information on the jumper. Being an electrical engineer I needed a reason for the machine to be messed up and you helped me locate what was wrong. That jumper selects which signal is fed into the 8520 chip as the TICK signal. If the 8520 is slightly damaged then the system clock can be off. Sure enough when I pulled it apart I popped in my spare 8520 chip into the U300 position and the system clock got well. I'm now happy that the clock is working again but I am baffled by a couple of things. This is a new motherboard and so far it's gone through 2 8520's in the last 2 months. I'm beginning to think there might be a larger problem here. The other thing that surprises me is when I first turned on the system unit to check it I did it without the keyboard attached. The machine wouldn't even begin to boot! I know the 2000 I used to have would boot up with or without the keyboard. Have you ever heard of something like this? Anyway thanks again for getting me back up and running. Keith