If all the above doesn't help, post again and we'll put our heads together to see if we can come up with anything else. The above are the most common.
How about this one, probably a little more complicated.
I'm assembling a new computer with the following:
Motherboard: Asus P2B (Intel 440BX chipset, Award BIOS)
Processor: Intel Celeron 300A
Memory: 64 MB PC-100 (first LGS 7ns now some other brand 8ns)
Video: 4mb Graphics Blaster-PCI (first was 8mb ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP, then switched to known-working card)
Eventually I intend to overclock this baby, but for now I'm just trying to get it to work at advertised speed.
Initially I installed the C-A-300, the memory stick, the ATI card, the hard and floppy drives, the sound/modem card, the DVD drive (left out MPEG-2 card for first boot) and the network card. Set bus speed to 66 MHz and multiplier to 4.5. Left Keyboard powerup jumper to default OFF. Connect Speaker, Reset, Power, etc leads. Double checked all connections for correct pins and polarity. First powerup: a never-ending series of long beeps and no POST. Eventually stripped the new machine down to the Graphics Blaster, the CPU, and memory stick. Tried it with drives attached and not attached. Same series of long beeps. Bought a new memory stick and now there are no beeps but there's no POST either.
My guess is it's probably a bad motherboard (rare as they are) because bad CPUs are really rare.
Any ideas? |
