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Our Troubleshooting Dead Machines forum is the place for Q&A-style discussions related to diagnosing machines that won't POST, can't boot-up, or have random restarts.

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Nov 16th, 2004

Announcement: So what is this Troubleshooting Dead Machines forum?

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