Upon powering up my desktop I get a double beep immediately on pushing the
power button. This has started since making the following changes:
I just removed a non-functional PATA DVD reader/writer and replaced it with
a SATA DVD reader/writer. I remove the PATA cable as well, since there are
no other drives using it. The only other thing I did was to
slightly re-position a temp sensor which controls the front fan on the case
(the wires go directly to the fan, not to the MB.)
I Googled for information. AMI bios seems to report a parity error in the
lowest 64K memory by signaling with two short beeps.
So I ran 100 passes of Memtest 86+ on the first 1M of memory. No failures.
Below is part of dmidecode's result for my system. As an aside, I am
confused as tow what bios version this is: 2.5, 0907, or 8.14.
Advice?
Thanks,
-Denis
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
73 structures occupying 2488 bytes.
Table at 0x0009F000.
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 0907
Release Date: 01/13/2009
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 1024 kB
Characteristics:
ISA is supported
................
LS-120 boot is supported
ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
BIOS Revision: 8.14
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