> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam > Sent: 07 December 2005 02:33 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds > beeps on boot > > > I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the > last 1/2 hr > or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer I'm > working on. Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too. > > One by one, I've disconnected each drive, beginning with the one I've > been tinkering with. There are currently 3 HDD and 2 cdroms in there. > > What led to this situation: > I had disconnected both cdroms and connected the new hdd on that > controller as single master. Booted up without problems. > The new drive > appeared in dmesg but fdisk knew nothing about it. > > I've been using Lilo lately and I noticed a line in lilo.conf > that told > the kernel some bad info since I had disconnected cdroms and > installed > the new drive: (On the kernel line amongst other things) > `hdc=ide-scsi' > > That was the same device noted in dmesg as belonging to the new drive. > hdc: WDC WD3000JB-00KFA0, ATA DISK drive > > I removed that from lilo.conf and reran lilo then shutdown. > As mach was > shutting down I heard those three beeps. Now I get the beeps > when I try > to boot and no bootsky. > > Its an intel D850MV mobo and on intel pages it tells me 3 > beeps mean a > memory problem. Just in case, I removed and reseated the > memory cards, > also tried booting with first one then the other mem card (2 > 256 cards). > No change in beeps. > > I even tried booting without any installed... I'm not sure if > that would > invoke the beeps anyway, but I did hear them. > > Its been my experience thru life that usually, in fact nearly > always, if > you have trouble with something after working on it, its very very > likely to be something you just did or had your hands on. I'm still > wanting to believe this is something simple I did with the drive. > However after disconnecting all drives ribbon and power > source, I still > hear the beeps, and don't get past that.
If the mobo manual says 3 beeps is a memory problem then that's that. MEMTEST 86 should pick up anything wrong with it. On the other hand you may have disturbed any jumpers/ribbons associated with the memory controller. In my limited experience, all beeps that I've experienced were related to either dodgy, or incompatible memory modules. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
