First, I appreciate all of the input. Thanks. Second for those who do not know my problem, please read message/string 11386 further down the board. Okay the update: I have yet to figure out which jumper is my CMOS jumper, but I did remove the battery hoping that would clear the CMOS settings. I did uploug all IDE and power connections including the RAM chips at least once. I am booting now with only my floppy connection, minimal RAM, and a connection to my video card. I have successfully entered BIOS, but I never really have enough time to do anything before it powers down. It really seems to be a power problem, I mean on the surface the computer makes most every attempt to boot normally but powers off at varying points during its self diag. The longer I leave it off, the longer it will boot up. But never longer than 10 sec or so. Sometime as short as 1 second. I have a larger power supply comming in a couple of days. It might be a junk power supply. Or I may have killed my computer. Still waiting to find out which. Any extra insights welcome. Shawn

sounds like a power problem...

sounds like the 110/220 switch is bad or in the wrong position. easier and safer to replace the power supply, then fix if it is bad.

Hi. The reason that you say that you killed your computer and it's not getting power, is probably the machine got fried somehow. Such as through a spike in power, wires were reconnected to the motherboard the wrong way and then the power was turned on. Or another possibility is, static. Say if you walk across a carpet and then touching a componet inside the computer without first grounding yourself,say by touching the metal chasis or wearing an anti static wrist strap to discharge static from your body, then static could have killed your computer too.

try removing all your pci cards ~(modems are usually at fault) and see if your system boots up, chances are that as the prev have said, your power supply is fried, try changing it, if the problem persists then you are looking at a motherboard problem....