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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the last 1/2 |
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> hr or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer |
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> I'm working on. Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too. |
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> One by one, I've disconnected each drive, beginning with the one I've |
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> been tinkering with. There are currently 3 HDD and 2 cdroms in there. |
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> What led to this situation: |
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> I had disconnected both cdroms and connected the new hdd on that |
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> controller as single master. Booted up without problems. The new |
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> drive appeared in dmesg but fdisk knew nothing about it. |
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> I've been using Lilo lately and I noticed a line in lilo.conf that |
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> told the kernel some bad info since I had disconnected cdroms and |
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> installed the new drive: (On the kernel line amongst other things) |
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> `hdc=ide-scsi' |
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> That was the same device noted in dmesg as belonging to the new drive. |
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> hdc: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive |
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> I removed that from lilo.conf and reran lilo then shutdown. As mach |
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> was shutting down I heard those three beeps. Now I get the beeps when |
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> I try to boot and no bootsky. |
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> Its an intel D850MV mobo and on intel pages it tells me 3 beeps mean a |
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> memory problem. Just in case, I removed and reseated the memory |
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> cards, also tried booting with first one then the other mem card (2 |
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> 256 cards). No change in beeps. |
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> I even tried booting without any installed... I'm not sure if that |
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> would invoke the beeps anyway, but I did hear them. |
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> Its been my experience thru life that usually, in fact nearly always, |
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> if you have trouble with something after working on it, its very very |
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> likely to be something you just did or had your hands on. I'm still |
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> wanting to believe this is something simple I did with the drive. |
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> However after disconnecting all drives ribbon and power source, I |
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> still hear the beeps, and don't get past that. |
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The websites of the bios makers will have the meaning of their beep |
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codes. There were only 3 and now 2 bios makers I believe. |
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I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card |
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problem. Did you check that they are in their slots securely? It is easy |
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to slightly dislodge something? |
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This is only a shot in the dark and hope it helps. |
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