"Euc1id" wrote in message
ink.net...
You should get some blinking of the hard drive activity light when you
start
it. If not, try substituting a different hard drive.
--
Euc1id

Thanks for the suggestion. Are you saying the HDD IDE electronics might be
shorted out? This is an interesting possibility that I had not considered.
On Monday, I will swap in a known-good HDD, and report back here. I know I
have had bad HDDs (hardware failure) that prevented booting (very early in
the POST) in the past. This possibility should have occured to me; my bad.

The only 'user-error' I am aware of with this box, is the PS switch was
incorrectly set to 230 (instead of 115). Can this incorrect setting cause
hardware damage? If so, which components?

-- Jay