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

[Harry Putnam]

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.

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