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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2001 9:51 pm
by bitSLAP
I have a system here that won't post:
Celly II 400 + Abit Slotket
Asus P3B-F, origional edition
64 megs (32 x 2 dimms) of pc-100
Matrox Millennium PCI 4 meg
48x cd, 2x8 cd-rom
UW-scsi, 9.1 gig Foojitsoo
I get continueous long beeps. I've replaced everything except the motherboard. This is the first of about 46 million of these boards that hasn't worked for me.
Does anyone have a clue as to what is wrong?
Thank you muchly - in advance.
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2001 10:22 pm
by smb
it could be that it doesn't like the celeron. I wasn't aware they made a cII @400 . make sure the slotket is in all the way.
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2001 10:47 pm
by sbp
bitSLAP probably meant Celeron 400. Because the slowest Celery 2 is the 533a.
http://support.intel.com/support/proces ... ec/icp.htm
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2001 11:38 pm
by Splitfire
Long beeps generally means a problem with your RAM some where. Reseat it or try some other known good sticks.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 1:52 am
by PreDatoR
That long beep sounds like a ram issue to me. Could also be the CPU i think. Be sure the slotket is the correct one. I think the FC-PGA's and PPGA slotkets are a little different cause i had a MSI Slotket that wouldn't work with Coppermin chips at all. My BF6 at the time would just beep at me when i tried booting up. Got a generic slotket for my C2 566 that was for coppermines and it worked fine.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 3:35 am
by sbp
"I think the FC-PGA's and PPGA slotkets are a little different cause i had a MSI Slotket that wouldn't work with Coppermin chips at all." Yes the first slotkets wouldn't work with Celeron 2s and PIII's. Thats why Iwill and MSI came out with with newer slotkets revisions.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 6:15 am
by bitSLAP
Thanks for the suggestions guys. Unfortunately, I removed the cpu/slotket/package ironicly from another P3B-F board, and everthing works.
Tried some different ram. No change.
I'll keep trying.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 11:25 am
by smb
are you trying to overclock it ? it could be the temperature probe is set too low in the bios.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 1:07 pm
by bitSLAP
No overclocking (yet)
I got it to post at least by setting it to jumpered mode and changing the multiplier to 2x. Putting it back in a case so I can play with it some more.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 2:06 pm
by Underclocked
Have you reinstalled the cpu/slotket in the other P3B-F? You know - it happens.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 2:29 pm
by bitSLAP
Hehe no. That board left my posession awhile ago. But I did try it in my board, and it works fine. In addition, my cpu in the other board doesn't work...
I put it back together and no worky again.
I got an email from Asus, saying repeated long beeps mean no DRAM detected. Tried three more pieces of ram, in every slot combination, but to no worky...
I think I'm giving up. It beat me.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2001 3:00 pm
by PreDatoR
RMA the board if it still is under warranty. sounds like the DRAM slots are fried on it to me.
Ahhh the joy of Hardware
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2001 10:03 am
by karsten
If you want I can take a shot at it. All you need to do is pay for shipping.
I ussed to work full time Hardware for quite a while and still do quite a bit from home.
I'd only need the MB since I got all the other stuff at home... exept if you want me to test it with your CPU.
You can look me up on Heatware, so you know I am trustworthy. Just drop me a mail.
Karsten