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To: RumbleFish who wrote (3371)	11/2/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) of 14778

To add a small footnote to Len's good advice, it's (barely) possible you will have a list of POST error codes in your MB manual. Count the beeps, and, if you have such a list, you can determine what the bios thinks is the problem. Chances are, though, it's the video connection somehow (which is usually 8 beeps if I recall correctly). Often this is improper card seating. It's not a cable, usually (cable would cause the monitor display but not the beeping most likely). If you can't get video, you can't get through POST, not even to get into the bios to set it up. If all else fails, check your MB manual for a bios reset (often a temporary jumper) and try that. Possibly your bios is deranged. BTW, chances are good you would not even get beeps if your cpu was fried or not seated; cpu's required to run the bios code that is beeping at you. "No signal input" is no doubt coming from the monitor itself. Pretty polite monitor <g>; mine just give me the stony black stare.

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