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                                  EXHIBIT 24.1

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


            KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below, being a member of the Board of Directors of Good Guys, Inc. (the
"Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Ronald A. Unkefer and Robert A.
Stoffregen, and each of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent,
each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for and in his name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign on his behalf a registration
statement on Form S-8 with respect to up to 1,000,000 shares of its common stock
issuable or purchased pursuant to the Good Guys Deferred Pay and Profit Sharing
Plan and/or interests or participations in or under such Plan, and any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto and any registration
statements relating to the same offerings pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and all other documents in connection therewith and with such
registration statements, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with the
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
necessary or advisable to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

            This power of attorney may be executed in any number of
counterparts.


Dated:  April 18, 2001                  /s/ RUSSELL M. SOLOMON
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                                        Russell M. Solomon

                                        /s/ GARY M. LAWRENCE
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                                        Gary M. Lawrence

                                        /s/ JOHN E. MARTIN
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                                        John E. Martin

                                        /s/ STANLEY R. BAKER
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                                        Stanley R. Baker

                                        /s/ JOSEPH P. CLAYTON
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                                        Joseph P. Clayton

                                        /s/ JOSEPH M. SCHELL
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                                        Joseph M. Schell

                                        /s/ KENNETH R. WELLER
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                                        Kenneth R. Weller