Allright.....my life is a world of suck now. $1500 system I put together myself and no problems for a month. Working great last night...this morning it won't get past post and issues 3 beeps indicating NO MEMORY. Now keep in mind the system wasn't touched between shutdown last night and startup this morning. No storms last night...no power dumps either (at least all the clocks were still displaying the proper time this morn)and the system is on a good quality surge protector/battery backup.
I have consulted all docs Intel has to offer and have gone through all the troubleshooting steps (basically disconnect all periphs, verify memory is still good, verify pow supply is still good). So all that is done but still won't get past 3 beeps.
Now here's a bit of light. While disconnecting periphs one at a time and leaving them disconnected (in case more than one was bad), it got thru post right after disconnecting the keyboard. So I leave that out and hook the HD back up so it could boot and then restarted the system. No go. 3 beeps again. So I think HD is fried too, right? Wrong. Unhooked HD and still the same prob. Soooo, for whatever reason, that one time without the keyboard it worked. So now I'm getting schizoid results and this lets me think, "maybe not hardware related but corrupted BIOS maybe?" If so, is it even possible to do a BIOS recovery if BIOS won't get thru post? Perhaps that's what removing that jumper does....let's it get thru bios and access the floppy that has the BIOS file so it can recover.
Well...I don't know, but I'm not so sure the MB is fried just yet...so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have consulted all docs Intel has to offer and have gone through all the troubleshooting steps (basically disconnect all periphs, verify memory is still good, verify pow supply is still good). So all that is done but still won't get past 3 beeps.
Now here's a bit of light. While disconnecting periphs one at a time and leaving them disconnected (in case more than one was bad), it got thru post right after disconnecting the keyboard. So I leave that out and hook the HD back up so it could boot and then restarted the system. No go. 3 beeps again. So I think HD is fried too, right? Wrong. Unhooked HD and still the same prob. Soooo, for whatever reason, that one time without the keyboard it worked. So now I'm getting schizoid results and this lets me think, "maybe not hardware related but corrupted BIOS maybe?" If so, is it even possible to do a BIOS recovery if BIOS won't get thru post? Perhaps that's what removing that jumper does....let's it get thru bios and access the floppy that has the BIOS file so it can recover.
Well...I don't know, but I'm not so sure the MB is fried just yet...so any help would be greatly appreciated.