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Title: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 03, 2005, 11:27:00 pm

I'm trying to set up my MAME PC, and am having a problem with the motherboard. Its a SuperMicro P4DC6 with dual Intel Xeon processors. When I turn it on, four small red LEDs light up on the motherboard, and I get a repeating tome out of the PC speaker. The best way I can describe it is as a "dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo" sound. I never actually get any picture on the monitor. I did test the video card on another computer, and it works.I have searched google to no avail. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: toolaa on September 03, 2005, 11:36:47 pm

Those beeps are bios error codes.  There should be some sort of key in the back of your MB manual. 

However it's also totally possible that your Dual Xeon Processors have become self aware and are simply refusing to perform such a lowly task, until you hook up speakers all they can do is beep at you!

I would imagine that they feel like it's sort of like having a Dual PHD in Nuclear Physics and Quantum Mechanics scrub toilets...

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 03, 2005, 11:47:13 pm

I can't interpret which error code it is from the manual. The manual's descriptions of the codes are unclear.

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 03, 2005, 11:47:57 pm

And it has expressed a desire to know launch codes for nuclear missiles

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: toolaa on September 04, 2005, 12:04:39 am

Are you sure it's not.

Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do

 ;)

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 04, 2005, 12:18:54 am

absolutely ;)

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: Sephroth57 on September 04, 2005, 02:18:41 am

www.helponthe.net

best computer help forums out there

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 04, 2005, 02:48:37 am

They seem to be down

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: M3talhead on September 04, 2005, 04:47:57 am

I can get to it.

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 04, 2005, 01:44:25 pm

now it works

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: psik0tik on September 04, 2005, 05:19:36 pm

try to reseat the memory

Title: Re: Computer Help
Post by: USSEnterprise on September 04, 2005, 09:56:14 pm

have tried that. Have tried to flash the BIOS