RE: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@×××××××××.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam
> Sent: 07 December 2005 02:33
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds
> beeps on boot
>
>
> I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the
> last 1/2 hr
> or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer I'm
> working on.  Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too.
>
> One by one, I've disconnected each drive, beginning with the one I've
> been tinkering with.  There are currently 3 HDD and 2 cdroms in there.
>
> What led to this situation:
> I had disconnected both cdroms and connected the new hdd on that
> controller as single master.  Booted up without problems.
> The new drive
> appeared in dmesg but fdisk knew nothing about it.
>
> I've been using Lilo lately and I noticed a line in lilo.conf
> that told
> the kernel some bad info since I had disconnected cdroms and
> installed
> the new drive: (On the kernel line amongst other things)
>     `hdc=ide-scsi'
>
> That was the same device noted in dmesg as belonging to the new drive.
>      hdc: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive
>
> I removed that from lilo.conf and reran lilo then shutdown.
> As mach was
> shutting down I heard those three beeps.  Now I get the beeps
> when I try
> to boot and no bootsky.
>
> Its an intel D850MV mobo and on intel pages it tells me 3
> beeps mean a
> memory problem.  Just in case, I removed and reseated the
> memory cards,
> also tried booting with first one then the other mem card (2
> 256 cards).
>   No change in beeps.
>
> I even tried booting without any installed... I'm not sure if
> that would
> invoke the beeps anyway, but I did hear them.
>
> Its been my experience thru life that usually, in fact nearly
> always, if
> you have trouble with something after working on it, its very very
> likely to be something you just did or had your hands on.  I'm still
> wanting to believe this is something simple I did with the drive.
> However after disconnecting all drives ribbon and power
> source, I still
> hear the beeps, and don't get past that.

If the mobo manual says 3 beeps is a memory problem then that's that.
MEMTEST 86 should pick up anything wrong with it.  On the other hand you
may have disturbed any jumpers/ribbons associated with the memory
controller.  In my limited experience, all beeps that I've experienced
were related to either dodgy, or incompatible memory modules.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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