The Dancing Peacock
Diamond Member
Below is my original message. I'm pretty sure I fried it. Gonna call ECS tomorrow and RMA it. 5 different sticks of RAM, 3 different vid cards. the beep reports point at either memory or motherboards. Suggest the most inexpensive socketA board that does onboard RAID?
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I just picked up a new TV-Capture card. I shut my computer down. Installed the tv card. Computer came up fine. Installed the drivers and the software, looked great so I rebooted it to be on the safe side before I started using it.
Here's my setup:
1.2 duron, not overclocked
ECS K7S5A
384 mb of sdram 1 stick 128, 1 stick 256 micron
Voodoo3 3000 vidcard
sblive value
realtek nic in addition to on board (nic wasn't connected to network after these reboots)
What happened:
1. After this reboot the computer wouldn't show a display.
2. So I shut it down and try again. I get the memory check, then the drive check but it wont go past that.
3. So I poke it again. No display, same thing I describe below.
4. I pull the new capture card out, and try it, same thing.
5. I pull my sisters ati xpert 2000 out of her machine and try it in mine, same thing.
6. I try her monitor with both the ATI and my voodoo3, still the same thing.
7. At this point I try clearing the CMOS ( I made sure the jumper is back in the "normal" spot), still nothing after that.
Each time when it tries to boot, afte the drives spin up, it tries to read the floppy, beeps, then tries the floppy again. After about 5 seconds the process starts over.
8. When I try to put a boot floppy in, I get 2 beeps in a row, after it reads from the floppy, wait 5 seconds, repeat.
9. I try a Matrox AGP card, same thing as above.
10. I try unplugging both of my data drives, My CD-ROM drive, AND my floppy. This time I get 8 beeps in a row. pause 5 seconds 8 more beeps.
11. I try to pull out my all my expansion cards. get the same "try to access floppy" 1 beep "try floppy again"
So I do a search on AMI beep codes. And come up with this
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/ami.htm
Looks like 1 beep, 2 beeps point to either memory or motherboard and 8 beeps could be video card, but I only got that when the floppy was not plugged in.
Any other advice other than pulling ram, which I'm about to try? I'd rather my mobo not be fried....bout to turn this comp off and try the DDR ram that it has.
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I just picked up a new TV-Capture card. I shut my computer down. Installed the tv card. Computer came up fine. Installed the drivers and the software, looked great so I rebooted it to be on the safe side before I started using it.
Here's my setup:
1.2 duron, not overclocked
ECS K7S5A
384 mb of sdram 1 stick 128, 1 stick 256 micron
Voodoo3 3000 vidcard
sblive value
realtek nic in addition to on board (nic wasn't connected to network after these reboots)
What happened:
1. After this reboot the computer wouldn't show a display.
2. So I shut it down and try again. I get the memory check, then the drive check but it wont go past that.
3. So I poke it again. No display, same thing I describe below.
4. I pull the new capture card out, and try it, same thing.
5. I pull my sisters ati xpert 2000 out of her machine and try it in mine, same thing.
6. I try her monitor with both the ATI and my voodoo3, still the same thing.
7. At this point I try clearing the CMOS ( I made sure the jumper is back in the "normal" spot), still nothing after that.
Each time when it tries to boot, afte the drives spin up, it tries to read the floppy, beeps, then tries the floppy again. After about 5 seconds the process starts over.
8. When I try to put a boot floppy in, I get 2 beeps in a row, after it reads from the floppy, wait 5 seconds, repeat.
9. I try a Matrox AGP card, same thing as above.
10. I try unplugging both of my data drives, My CD-ROM drive, AND my floppy. This time I get 8 beeps in a row. pause 5 seconds 8 more beeps.
11. I try to pull out my all my expansion cards. get the same "try to access floppy" 1 beep "try floppy again"
So I do a search on AMI beep codes. And come up with this
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/ami.htm
Looks like 1 beep, 2 beeps point to either memory or motherboard and 8 beeps could be video card, but I only got that when the floppy was not plugged in.
Any other advice other than pulling ram, which I'm about to try? I'd rather my mobo not be fried....bout to turn this comp off and try the DDR ram that it has.
