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Hello, When I try turning my computer on, I cannot boot in 20% of the time. I rather get the computer to beep 3 times and I cannot boot again unless I replace my AGP voodoo3 card with a PCI VGA card, then flash the bios, turn the computer off, switch back the cards and boot. What can cause the...

:( I tried the PC100 64MB stick... It didn't work! Still the Same Problem! Someone is telling me it is the Power Supply?! Could it cause that? I have an LC-235ATX power supply. Tried to increase the voltage on the mobo by switching the VIO jumper to pins 2-3, but i didn't help. I got the smae...

I think it's the RAM. Actually, one of the golden pins seems damaged. I t is black. I thought first when I got the chip that it was a blank pin, but now that I took a closer look, it seems "burned". I purchased it over the net (mcglen.com). Any idea if they might exchange it within...

Thank you for the hint. I will try to borrow RAM from someone to test it out. And get back to the supplier to return the RAM I have if it turns to be bad. Would trying to reboot several time when testing affect the motherboard in any way. Can it damage anything on the board? Thanks a lot for...

Yes, I checked the jumpersettings on the converter card. Anyway, I am now working with a Slot1 800EB, without converters, and I am getting the same problem. For the ram, I have a one-chip 256MB, seated in DIMM0. IO tried to move it to DIMM1. No changes! BTW, If I look at the pins on my RAM...

Hello, I newly purchased a P3v4x, 256RAM, SBLive!, voodoo3 3000, western digital HDD 20GB; and I am running Win 2000 Professional. Initially I had a PIII 733MHz, PPGA with converter card. It happens that sometimes, I cannot start my computer. i get I long beep, 2 beep ... and finally a roar...