Re: Fedora Core 2 killed my Soyo Motherboard

From: philo (philo_at_privacy.net)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 07:35:50 -0500

"Tony Mendonca" <mendonca139@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:2Bxsc.4932$iCJ1.4164@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> 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.
> Still no Video of CMOS.
> This is a PC that has worked flawlessly for 5 years and run 15 different
> versions of Linux, FreeBSD and never experienced these problems.
> Could FC2 be changing the BIOS of the PC?

the fact that it's beeping is *good* ...it means the mobo is good!

just check the manual for the meaning of the beep codes

(most of the time it's memory or video related)

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