New box does not load BIOS

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

If the cpu was dead, you wouldn't even hear the beep, usually if the
system doesnt like your ram, you'll get lots of beeps.

-miah

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:27:35AM -0400, Doug Sweetser wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> Mark was kind enough to give me a PCI video card.  With and without
> the AGP card in the slot, the board does not post, the word I have
> learned having to do with the first beeps and signals that a computer
> makes after being given power.
> 
> The RAM had worked in another computer.  That leaves three types of
> problems: the motherboard (new), the cpu (new), or the way everything
> is connected.  I confess to inexperience.  I figure it only takes one
> wiring blunder to silence a motherboard.  If anyone in the group likes
> to solve this sort of hardware problem, I could bring the hardware
> with all the manuals to you this weekend (I'd probably also buy a new
> motherboard because I need something to work).  This sounds like a
> game of swapping parts until things work, and experience is a key to
> win.  Please email me if you could do this sort of charity work.
> 
> Thanks,
> doug
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