Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Harry Putnam wrote: 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. The websites of the bios makers will have the meaning of their beep codes. There were only 3 and now 2 bios makers I believe. I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. Did you check that they are in their slots securely? It is easy to slightly dislodge something? This is only a shot in the dark and hope it helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Harry Putnam wrote: 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. I think 3 beeps is either your memory or CPU isn't slotted correctly. I can't remember which it is. Try taking out your memory first, and re-slotting it. It probably just got bumped when you were putting in your new HDD. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Jerry Turba wrote: I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on all the boxen I have ever seen. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Harry Putnam wrote: 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. doh. I totally missed that part of your email. you may need a chip in each slot. I can't remember how your mobo works. some like that, some don't care. So, taking out one memory chip might not even work. however, it's possible that you discharged some static electricity and popped a memory chip. You really need the ability to put those chips in another mobo. At this point, you're going through the process of elimination. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam Sent: 07 December 2005 02:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot 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. If the mobo manual says 3 beeps is a memory problem then that's that. MEMTEST 86 should pick up anything wrong with it. On the other hand you may have disturbed any jumpers/ribbons associated with the memory controller. In my limited experience, all beeps that I've experienced were related to either dodgy, or incompatible memory modules. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:33 pm, a tiny voice compelled Harry Putnam to write: 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. IIRC, 3 long beeps is a keyboard error. Did you remember to plug it in? do you have a spare? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 10:30:44 up 2 days, 1:13, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.47, 0.74 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Phil Sexton wrote: Jerry Turba wrote: I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. bad grey matter memory Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on all the boxen I have ever seen. /bad grey matter memory That should be one long beep followed by 3 short ones. blush -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
-Original Message- From: Billy Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 December 2005 15:27 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot Harry Putnam wrote: 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. doh. I totally missed that part of your email. you may need a chip in each slot. I can't remember how your mobo works. some like that, some don't care. So, taking out one memory chip might not even work. however, it's possible that you discharged some static electricity and popped a memory chip. You really need the ability to put those chips in another mobo. At this point, you're going through the process of elimination. In the absence of another machine (and the risk of causing the same or worse due to not earthing oneself onto the box frame first) MEMTEST 86 should do the trick of diagnosing the blown memory module. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Michael Kintzios wrote: In the absence of another machine (and the risk of causing the same or worse due to not earthing oneself onto the box frame first) MEMTEST 86 should do the trick of diagnosing the blown memory module. this assumes one can get past POST :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
On 12/7/05, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:33 pm, a tiny voice compelled Harry Putnam to write: 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. No need to guess. 1) These codes are on the web. Google post beep codes. Here's a couple: http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm 2) They are different from one BIOS manufacturer to another. For complex codes make sure you know who's BIOS you are using. 3) 3 beeps is usually the keyboard. You probably pulled it a bit from the socket. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
