I fear I may have neglected my miggy a stage too far.

[Karlos]

Now my main 1200T doesn't boot at all.

I have decided to strip it down and give it a damn good cleaning as it was choked with dust.

Perhaps it may recover but I'm not hopeful.

Shame on me :-(

[Karlos]

There's a lot of dust under the BlizzardPPC heatsink. The thing is I haven't actually used it for ages and I cleaned it out then. Quite strange, really.

I'm loaded with cold myself at the moment so I need TLC as badly as the miggy does but I'll see what comes of a good CIR session.

[Karlos]

My system lives again, almost. It recognises the 040 on the PPC board and naught else.

Last time it got like this I had to reflash it.

[Karlos]

I never knew an little used machine could accumulate so much dust.

It's been stripped, cleaned, had anything that could be reseated reseated, the PSU has been checked, capacitors inspected (no leaky or bulging ones found yet).

All in all it was in OK shape apart from the dust, a scarily large amount of which was in the PPC card's heatsink.

I have since managed to get it booted, though it refused to do so until I flashed the PPC card.

I wonder just how many years are left in the old girl now :-/