Re: Fedora Core 2 killed my Soyo Motherboard

From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens (jbn_at_forestfield.org)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: 25 May 2004 06:38:31 GMT

Tony Mendonca wrote:
> The Battery is still good. tested on another PC and Multimeter.
> I've Reset the CMOS jumper
> I've removed all Memory sticks in all combinations
> Now the system continously makes long beeps followed by short gaps of
> silence.

Soyo's USA site (http://www.soyousa.com/) says at
http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=167

  Article Number S1167

  I get continuous long beeps with short pauses
  To resolve this issue:

  1. The beep is indicating that the motherboad did not detect your memory.
  Please check and make sure the memory is fully seated into the slot. If
  you have re-seated the memory a few times and it is still not working,
  then the memory you have may not be compatible with the board or it has
  become damaged. Please replace the memory (Refer to the memory
  configuration table in your manual).

Can your computer do anything without any RAM installed (perhaps allow you
to get to the BIOS screen)? It's unlikely multiple sticks of RAM would
cause the same problem simultaneously unless the computer was also
electrically damaged. But did you try putting in another stick of RAM, just
to test it?

What happened when you contacted Soyo? (Visit
http://www.soyousa.com/support/contactsupport.php?contactsupport=1 for their
contact page or find their phone number)

> Could FC2 be changing the BIOS of the PC?

So long as the BIOS is upgradeable, any program from any OS could alter it.
However I doubt anything like that purposefully happened.

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