I've had a few things seem to break on me before, then I come back and just turn the computer on and it works...it's like, WTF?
I remember when I first got windows 95...I couldn't for the life of me get it to work on my old pentium 60... Well, after 80+ dollars in calls to Microsoft, it finally started working out of the blue. I'd just reset all the config options back to the defaults, if I remember, and started it back up and boom...windows 95. Windows 95 working under the same options it was refusing to work under before
And I didn't have any problems after that installing it again after formats and whatnot.
Anywho, I'm surprised, my brother came today. I didn't figure he'd come so soon. He futzed with it here for a bit, but couldn't figure out if it was the processor or the motherboard, so he took it with him. Hopefully he'll be able to figure it out.