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Only One Computer Still Working. Correction. Two.

Edited to add: In order to keep clear in my head which computers you're offering advice about, it's probably a good idea for me to label the references below to indicate the four computers.

Now in addition to my Linux computer (A), the one that is running Windows (B) is not working either. That leaves only the old graphite G4 Mac (C).

The Windows computer (an Athlon XP 1700+) (B) gets to the "Press DEL to enter SETUP" phase of bootup, and freezes there.

I cleaned the dust from the heat sink of the Linux computer (an Intel Pentium 4) (A). Now I no longer hear it spin up and spin down, up and down, up and down. The fans run continually. But it still doesn't beep or put anything on the screen at all. I think it can use some replacement thermal paste on the processor, but I have none.

I tried hooking up the computer that I got from the trash a few months ago (D), on which I installed Linux.

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FastTrak100 (tm) "Speed" BIOS Version 1.31 (Build 22)
(c) 1995-200 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
Scanning IDE drives .................................................

Warning - FastTrak does not detect proper interrupts,
Please check your PCI IRQ setup, and make sure the PCI slot 
support Bus Master operations

At least I thought I had installed Linux on it (D), but I don't know how that could have worked if it can't detect the hard drive and isn't booting from the Feisty Fawn release of Ubuntu Linux which in the CD drive.

Correction! Now it (D) boots to Ubuntu from the CD! Thank you, "Live CD"!