Megan — Sat, 15 Dec 2001 04:08:25 +0000

Oh.... sorry, I didn't think of that. :blush: I'm not exactly a hardware person as if you can't tell.

Well, the problem is solved. He didn't have it put in right - just fit it back in again and everything's working fine now. He insisted on putting it in himself even though he's never touched the inside of a computer in his life. You know men, always wanting to do it themselves.... oh, wait, you guys are men .... or are you.....

Just kidding

mairving — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:32:53 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
Doh! I don't think we had the speakers on! I forgot to check that because I just leave mine on all the time.

Thanks for all your help guys.

It's not the external speakers. There is an internal speaker built into the case that causes the beeps.

Megan — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:46:14 +0000

Doh! I don't think we had the speakers on! I forgot to check that because I just leave mine on all the time.

Thanks for all your help guys.

mairving — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:32:54 +0000

Actually if it is a P200, it uses SIMMS not SDRAM. The price from Crucial for a 128MB SIMM, 72-pin is $122US. They have to make money somewhere. I would pull the RAM out and try reseating it.

Here is a listing of Award Beep Codes. As long as your speaker is hooked up you should hear beeps.

Megan — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:34:25 +0000

Have you checked lately? Maybe it's different in the 'states but we were looking on Saturday and were told that the prices just went up again over the past couple of weeks. I think they were asking $80 Canadian for a 128 stick... or maybe that was a 256....

Mark Hensler — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:48:45 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
We put the RAM in on Sunday and it worked fine until Tuesday night.

I think Marc's right. It's probably faulty RAM that took a while to reveal it's dark side.

RAM is sooo cheap right now, you could buy 128MB of PC133 for about $30 US. I'm kicking myself now because I bought 512MB of PC133 just before the prices took that plunge. It cost me over $200.

Megan — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:12:10 +0000

It just stops. Nothing happens after the memory test. No noises, no nothing.

We put the RAM in on Sunday and it worked fine until Tuesday night. Will try taking out the new stuff (don't have two of the old sticks anymore... kinda sold them but 16 will be fine just to see if it works)

It does say "Press Del to enter setup" but doesn't work... probably because it's frozen and won't do anything! Booting from a floppy won't work either - I'm guessing because it hasn't gotten to the point of checking that drive???

Mark Hensler — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 05:44:23 +0000

Does it make any sounds? A persistent beep usually indicates that the RAM is not seated properly or is "nackerd".

Windows is not the problem if pressing DEL doesn't work (unless DEL is the wrong key for this BIOS, other keys are F10, F8, ESC, and a few others).

Did you zap anything when playing inside the box? Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) can do wacky things to your computer. That is why you should always ground yourself before opening your box.

Did the machine ever make it into windows after you put the RAM in it?

Quote: Nothing works after this.

What excatly is is 'nothing'? Does it hang (there was an error loading), or does it loop back and count RAM again (this mean there is no OS on the drive)?

Some things you may try:
-Does it boot off a floppy?
-Does it work with the old placement of the RAM?

mjames — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:38:19 +0000

It could be the RAM - sometimes it won't be faulty right away, and this may be the case, where it just is delayed, but still faulty.

Gurudev — Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:13:02 +0000

I think it is a windows problem and it needs to be reinstalled.