Latest tests on mobo setup  ASUS K8N-DL + 2 AMD OPTERONS.. per suggestions
you all have kindly made....

It sat idle for the last year, and two days ago I tried to bring it up and
it got hung in the BIOS area in a cyclic fashion.  Previously it had run
fine for several years.  Now the mobo has never posted completely, and
beeped one-short (Anybody have any idea about beep codes for this mobo
are?  ASUSTEK does not show them on line) .  It did show my two optical
drives, the original hard drive as well as one I added, in addition to
identical 6 memory sticks..mem total 6.134 Gigs.  I then cleared cmos and
reseated all the memory and then the memory showed 5.762 Gigs,  417Mb shy.

I then unplugged all IDE and SATA devices and started trying each of the 6
(identical) memory sticks in slot A1 per mobo manual... same response.
A1+A2 showed 2048Gig, and with any paired additional B1+B3 or A3+B3 per
manual again failed and showed only 3.932 Gig memory.  All failed to
completely post.

I have not yet tried a different power supply plugged just into the mobo.

Any suggestions?  I would like to get this machine up so that I can at
least off load the drives.

Someone kindly suggested some Windows software that should be able to read
EXT2/EXT3 and thus should at least allow me to grab data.  I do have a
partially complete usb Linux backup drive.  Thus perhaps I can at least try
looking at this with Windows?


Many thanks for your consideration..


John
-- 
John McKelvey
10819 Middleford Pl
Ft Wayne, IN 46818
260-489-2160
[email protected]



-- 
John McKelvey
10819 Middleford Pl
Ft Wayne, IN 46818
260-489-2160
[email protected]
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