Re: Fedora Core 2 killed my Soyo Motherboard

From: Robert M. Riches Jr. (spamtrap42_at_verizon.net)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:28:13 GMT

In article <2Bxsc.4932$iCJ1.4164@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, \
 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.
> 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.

There's a _chance_ the mobo might require a different type
of RAM after resetting the CMOS than after configuring to
real-life defaults. I had an Iwill P4ES mobo (Intel 845E
chipset, IIRC) that supports ECC DRAM. However, after doing
a jumper CMOS reset, it requires non-ECC RAM or it won't
power up. After using the BIOS to set to "optimized
defaults", it works fine with either ECC or non-ECC.
Strange.

Good luck.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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