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Acer Flatlining

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Stealth1024

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Alright, I was asked to fix a 5 year old Acer Pentium (16MB RAM) computer. I was told the computer had been sent to Best Buy where they diagnosed that the power supply was bad. The power supple checks out fine and a new one fails to solve the problem.

When you turn on the computer a long beep is heard. It completes the memory check but fails to continue, all the while beeping. Acer has all these "special" Acer motherboard riser boards and getting around in one of these stupid cases in a pain. I will try some new memory and a different processor. Other than that does it appear to you that this is a motherboard problem?

 
I've removed all expansion cards, disconnected CD-ROM, floppy, and hard drives drives, installed a new processor, installed two new EDO DRAM chips, installed a new power supply, yet still nothing. Without any drives connected the tones continue, however it complains it can't find floppy A and lets you enter the BIOS.
 
I'm guessing it does the same thing if you have just the floppy connected? I mean, does it still complain about not finding it if you have it connected?

Any clues in the BIOS? Did the on-board FDD interface get disabled somehow? Any other strange settings?

Otherwise, sounds like something wrong with the mobo, which means time for a new computer, as I'm sure you were hoping was not the case.
 
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