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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) \| Respond to 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

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (22783)	10/11/2001 12:10:53 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Ed, Thanks for the tip, I didn't know I had to save the scheme. After saving as, do you need to reboot in order for the new sound settings to take? Currently, with the windows default scheme, although certain sound events like new mail, or default beep are set to sounds I can play manually, they do not sound when the event takes place. Changing the sounds has had no effect. I tried assigning sounds to simple events like maximize window for easy testing, but they don't play when I initiate a maximize window. I'll try rebooting with my new sound scheme later in the day after the market closes. Esteban