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As Ramon says, it is possible my CPU has been taken out as well. Any telltale signs I can look for that will provide a clue? The CPU is not that great, so it will probably not sway my decision on...

Thanks for all the advice. I am pretty sure having looked at the pictures, that the capacitors are bad. I did not know if it was normal for them to go in groups, in this case four went at almost...

O.K. tried different video card, still no post.

My son called from school last week, and said he PC wasn't booting. He and a friend tried swapping out power supplies to no avail. I had hime drop it off at a friend's, and we went and picked it up...

Thanks for all the help. Here's my status:

Ran Counterspy, not bad.
Ran CWShredder, was clean.

Went through sequence with Safe Mode shown in guide.

On W98SE, when go to Start > Run >...

It appears my problems have to do with trojan horses.

I've d/l'ed Antivir, but haven't got to CounterSpy yet.

Antivir found over 75 .EXE's in C:/WINDOWS and //SYSTEM folders from Trojan horse...

Here are my conditions and symptoms:

Shuttle AI61 MB
Athlon 700 Mhz CPU
224 MB RAM
13 Gig HD
Fresh Win98SE install (2 weeks ago)
Run mostly games BF1942 and AVP2
A little bit of surfing, not...

Excellent.

I got as far as vimtutor.

I would like to be able to edit the grub.conf from a terminal session.

Just in case.

Thanks much,

In my case,;
default = 1 boots to windows,
default = 0 boots to linux.

I vaguely recall doing this from a terminal session a while back, but I don't remember how I did it.

I'm...

O.K. I'm looking into it right now. If anyone can remember line by line instructions on how that edit is accomplished it would be much appreciated.