Just thought I would share something amusing with you all....

We had one of our machines here stop powering up correctly. One of the techs methodically troubleshot it to hardware, and was down to the point of having reseated the processor, replaced the memory and checked the power supply. Nothing seemed to be working. It would power on, beep a few times and nothing else. Exasperated, he asked me what I thought. I suggested it may be a motherboard problem, since everything else is done. Then I jokingly asked if he tried "percussive maintenance."

With that he brought his fist down on the case with a resounding thud.

to our shock and great amusement, It booted.

Its a solder problem on the motherboard apparently... If you move it it wont boot, flex the motherboard a bit and it will (no its not touching, we checked.)

*shrug* hope it brings both a chuckle and a term you can use .... "percussive maintenance"

Avenger