would be at >a premium and therefore quite valuable. gobbledy->gook on screen which is not very promising - if anyone has any clues I'd be >grateful. I thought of disabling the HD and trying to boot from a floppy to see if it >was just the HD that's cactus. MCA stuff is pretty common still if you know where to look. Plenty of cheap stuff on ebay all the time. I've got loads of goodies meself. What's harder to find is the interesting stuff like the MCA servers and upgrade parts/boards. As for the mod60 problems, I'm sure it can be fixed. They seldom go bad. You might be getting a password skeleton key prompt, or a numerical POST code. If all else fails, remove the battery for a while, take out all adaptors except for the hard drive one, build a reference disk and then try to boot from it. After you build a ref disk, don't let Win9x read it as it messes it up and the PS/2 wont boot from it.