>The POST must not have gotten even that far as there was no signal/beep. Could the motherboard be fried? Maybe the main processing IC up 'n died? It's the only thing that hasn't been mentioned yet. - Peter ---------------------- Sorry I didn't chime in before. The exact symptoms happened to me. Plugged in a nano and the machine froze. Did PMU reset, all was well. Couple of days later, same thing again. PMU reset, no dice. I got fans starting, then going full speed, hard drives spinning, I could feel them, LED on mobo on, but absolutely nothing else. Same deal with the light on the switch. Only thing is that I can't always even do the switch turn off, sometimes it has to be pull the plug time. I too did all of the voodoo dances and couldn't get it to work. Finally decided it was either CPU or mobo. Sent thee CPU off to be tested in an identical machine, worked fine. So I'm pretty sure mine is a mobo issue, although I have no way to test further. Melinda If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com