Strange hardware problem

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi all!

I've been offline most of this week because my MSI motherboard started 
shutting down on me. It was the strangest thing -- almost as if I had a 
poltergeist in the room or something. When I boot up, once the 
motherboard does a floppy seek or tries to access the hard disk or CD 
ROM, it suddenly shutd down. Note : this happens even before my OS has a 
chance to boot.

Has anyone seen this kind of problem before? I'm pretty sure it's not 
the AMD CPU overheating. I did a CMOS reset, but it still gave me this 
problem.

I had to shell out some money to replace the motherboard -- and a new 
casing with 4 fans so it wouldn't burn out during the coming dry season.

Regards,
pascal chong