On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:04 AM, John McKelvey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) .
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280764-30-asus-long-beep ^ This forum post suggests the problem may be CPU-related? The guys suggests re-seating the CPUs, verifying the CPU fan cables are plugged into the right sockets, unplugging keyboard and mouse, and booting. No yea/nay response, though, to how well that worked for the OP. > 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 wonder if there's a setting somewhere for how much of your system memory gets dedicated to be used for the onboard video card? I've seen this sort of "shared memory" setup a lot. If you reset the BIOS back to factory defaults and the setting for how much memory the system can use for video increased, that might explain the difference. Just a thought. > 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? Can't you plug it into another Linux box? Much easier that way. I've used a couple of EXT read/write tools on buddies' Windows XP and 7 boxes to read my EXT3 portable hard disk before. It's not a standard Windows filesystem driver, so Windows does not see it as an actual drive; you have to use the little application's GUI to interact with your disk and copy stuff back and forth that way. It was a total pain, and I've decided to stick with VFAT on my portable drive since. It would probably be easier, even if you plugged it into a Windows box, to boot into a live Linux CD for copying the files from the old Linux disk onto the Windows drive. > Many thanks for your consideration.. Hope any of that helps. Best of luck! > John Simón _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
