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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (22783)	10/11/2001 1:42:48 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) of 110653

In my travels today I passed a PC out on the curb with a bunch of other stuff from a store that went out of business, so naturally I took it. The 15" monitor works fine, it's always good to have an extra around. The PC has an AMD K6- 350, a 48X Creative CDrom, & 64MB SDram but no hard drive. When I tried to boot it wouldn't post and I got continuos beeps. My 2nd computer is a 233 MMX. It's 20X CDrom sticks when opening and closing so I figured I'd use the CDrom from the PC I found, MAJOR MISTAKE. Some how it killed my 233 which now gives me the same continous beeps as the PC I just found :( I stripped down the M/B to just the processor and the video card and still got the continous beeps. Instead of spending $50 on a new M/B I decided on a major upgrade. In Tigerdirect's 2nd to newest catalogue they had a FIC AD-11 M/B (http://www.fica.com/products/motherboard/Socket462/AD11.stm) and an AMD 1.2 GHZ, 266 MHZ processor for $220. I went for it along with 128 MBs of DDR ram and a good fan. I should have everything by Friday or Saturday night. =========================== I was about to post this message a 1/2 hour ago then something inside told me to try again and guess what? Yep, the old 233 is working again. I gotta see if I can find the beep codes for an Asus TX-97E M/B. My assumption that it was fried was apparently wrong. Tomorrow I'll work on bringing the PC I found back to life. Anybody have any idea what happened? As far as the new M/B and processor goes, I wanted another Win 2K Pro or Win XP PC to network with my 933 and a 233 or 350 wouldn't cut it so I won't cancel the order. I'll use the case from the AMD 350 I found if I can't bring it back to life. Happy Trails, SIfkaJB

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