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shardian:

I just had an Emachines pc that was beeping/not working fixed. The culprit - memory.

northerngames:

yeah I would go down the mobo and 1 stick of ram to start and go from there if you have onboard video but if not just start with the video card and 1 ram stick and then add 1 at a time.

make sure your hdd is set to master the cd drive to slave on their jumpers.

usually the beeps are bad seated ram cards or the jumpers above are not set right. at

you have power so at least you can test things still so thats good .

 

DefJam:


I tried reseating everything..... one ram stick at a time..... no luck...   (did this a a few times).
I did not check jumpers, I'll go back downstairs and try that now.
I actually had the beeping problem once before but that was for a dead battery on the board, much fewer beeps then this.

It was a bit older then I thought.... Looks like it is an AMD athlon from 1999.  Just think how far computers have come since then.....

Well if, the jumpers don't solve the problem, I think I'm giong to try and put in the montherboard and power supply from my HP from 2000 that is just laying around..... (and won't boot because XP is full of junk and I think the machine has no memory to speak of.  As you guys mentioned, probably will be all kinds of driver issues, but maybe I'll get lucky.

Next post may be,  "looking for cheap new PC" to bring machine back to life.....









DefJam:

That didn't turn out so well.  Good news was that my old celeron hp use to boot. Swaped in the video card and hard drive from the mame.  Got one beep while booting   Went to reboot and nothing completely dead

so I have two dead pc. Going to call that a night


Kman-Sweden:

It's a stupid thing but a PC won't boot if the keyboard is missing... Should complain about it on the screen...
Also my HTPC is really sensitive about it's RAM. I had to put it in and pull it out (hold the phun jokes, ok!?) and wiggle it a couple of times to get the PC to boot. The MB bends a bit while inserting the RAM and that made for some bad connections.

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