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Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:59:13 PST
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video card troubles - help needed

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In <3A845C8A.1C83@peterskye.com>, on 02/09/01
at 01:09 PM, Peter Skye said:

>Tom Brown wrote:
>>
>> I believe the cause is the video card ... The Award web
>> site says that the only beep code is one long and two short
>> beeps signifying a bad video card. ... there ARE two short
>> beeps at the end although they are nearly run together.

>That would be what I would do next. If you have a non-PCI video card you
>can try installing it and booting up -- the motherboard BIOS will check
>for anything else wrong with the system, you can look at the CMOS
>settings, and you can look at the bootup PCI Device Listing table to see
>if there's anything unusual.

Peter is correct. You need to start pulling parts. Start by pulling
everything, RAM, disk drive cables, the works except for the keyboard.
Then power on the system. You should get the "no memory beep". If this
matches what you're already getting, you either have bad RAM or a blown
MB. If not, reinstall the RAM, cycle power and listen to the beeps. Then
the video card.

I would also blow out the dust, reset the CPU and press on all the
socketed chips.

Steven

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