Ever heard that sound and been faced w/ a black screen after just putting a machine together? I have the odd time; and just the other day nailed down what is causing it.
Some, (maybe all, for all I know), boards require that you fill the RAM slots in order. i.e. first put a stick in DIMM1, before putting one in DIMM2, and fill both DIMM1 and DIMM2 before putting a stick in DIMM3. If you don't, it is black screen and BEEP, (pause) beep, beep, beep.
BEEP --- --- beep --- beep --- beep
BEEP --- --- beep --- beep --- beep
Last edited by Jim on Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:59 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
RE: BEEP --- --- beep --- beep --- beep
Hmmm... I would agree that such error codes would be determined to the chipset & manufacturer design, for example my FIC VA-502 boots & runs fine with empty ram slots 1/2 3/4, though this may be due to the fact that it utilizes 72 pin RAM in 5/6... while my LX chipset s370 motherboard didn't care where the ram was installed bank 1,2 or 3