Hello. Obviously I have a problem. When I upgraded Linux on my machine, everything worked perfectly except it didn't recognize one of my NICs. So, I shut it down and opened up my case to find the card not all the way in. Pushed in back in. Problem solved, yes? However, as soon as I turned the machine back on, the thing doesn't boot up. To be more specific, the monitor doesn't show anything (doesn't even try to change), the CPU light goes and stays on, the hard drives click about as if booting, and nothing happens. There are no warrning beeps or anything like that. I get the same thing when I remove all the ram and the cpu. So can I assume that the motherboard is fried and I should get a replacement? If so, is all the other stuff on it okay to transfer (the ram, cpu, devices, etc)? Or should I consider these shot as well? I really don't have a way to test these. Also, what is the name of the AMD socket that uses the K6-2 chips? The chips themselves are completley square with a width of five pins (alternating between two and three pin rows) and have a missing pin on one of the corners. Please help me out! Thanks.

Cant answer your boot up problems. If it worked without the NIC, try removing them and see if you reproduce what was happening before. As for the AMD K6-2, it fitted into a Socket 7 PGA socket. Stuart

K6-2 uses the socket 7... You're not gonna get any kind of display if you pull the RAM & CPU. Are you sure you didn't knock the videocard when you were messing inside with the NIC?

Socket 7. Gotcha. The video card is onboard. And I'm sure the monitor is connected. Also, the computer does the same thing with or without the NIC. It does the same thing no matter if the CPU and Ram sticks are there or not. I've even swapped the CPU with another one that worked with it (the older one) but the same thing happens. Hope this helps. Thanks.