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Since you are getting system beeps, see if you can track down a beep code list on your board.  I had a similar problem once, and come to find out from the beep codes, one of my RAM sticks came unseated enough to goof it up. 
 
BIOS virus could do it.  If you flash it, maybe that would solve it (ooo, Field of Dream flashback).  Or, just get a cheap board like you are doing too.  But if you've never flashed a BIOS, good time to try and learn!


From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fallert, Adam Christian
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:17 AM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: RE: [MLUG] Does any have a old chip and Motherboard

Yeah, I checked the battery.  The machine will power up.  It will not detect any AGP video cards.  It will however detect a PCI video card, but then it just starts to beep at me and the monitor flashes in odd patterns and asci code with the beep.

 

I am suspecting that the bios may have been hit with a bios virus sometime before I bought the motherboard on eBay.  As always with bios viruses, they tend to strike on or after a specific date.

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University of Missouri - Columbia
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From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Wyant
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:09 AM
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Subject: RE: [MLUG] Does any have a old chip and Motherboard

 

Maybe you need to Flash your BIOS...Are you getting any signs of life from your machine when you hit the power button?  Don't forget to check the on board battery and power connections running to the board itself.  I've seen board batteries go bad and create havoc like this.

 

just my 2 cents

 


From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fallert, Adam Christian
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:54 AM
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Subject: [MLUG] Does any have a old chip and Motherboard

Does anyone have an old p2, p3 or AMD equivalent and corresponding motherboard you would like to get rid of?  My dedicated Linux box at home somehow got zapped during my move into a new house.  Basically, I powered it down, moved it by car, let it sit for a couple weeks, and now it won’t post upon power up. 

 

I am desperate.  I have a lot of files on there that I need access to soon.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Adam

 

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Adam C. Fallert
I-Net Administrator
308H Cornell Hall
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO. 65202
Phone: (573) 884-1385
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