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Soyo k7ada v1.0 partial or complete death?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 4:01 am
by psalms34n1
when my soyo k7ada v1.0 is started up, all that happens is the fans kick on, the harddrive lights come on, i get no video and a long unending tone out of the speaker. this even happens when i disconnect everything from the board except the power supply. so to me, basically put it's dead. do i need a new bios?from all i've been reading, that's what it sounds like it is.
Andre'
psalms34n1@aol.com
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 10:13 am
by NickS
A long unending tone suggests that the processor is running and complaining that an early part of power-on self test is failing; this typically happens with a memory fault. I would start by troubleshooting the memory.
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:05 am
by psalms34n1
This happens whether there is memory installed in it or not.
Andre'
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 9:56 am
by NickS
POST tests a lot more than just memory. I only told you the most common cause of a continuous tone - a problem with memory. Have you stripped the system down to a bare motherboard/cpu/ram/psu ? Cleared CMOS ? Swapped/removed the video card (if it is causing the problem, removing it should change the code to one long, two short IIRC) ?
If you have replaced the memory with known good memory of the right configuration, and the CPU is correctly configured, try swapping the CPU. If that fails a replacement BIOS is about the only thing left before you bin the board.
