Posts by groovon

UPDATE: False alarm! I'd overlooked that a custom power management setting I'd made included the lower clock rate. [Duh!] Situation normal. Thanks! OK, I'm hoping this is a temporary glitch due to having to run on only one 256MB RAM...

UPDATE: Just wanted to say thanks to all who offered advice on this. Having run out of patience, I sent the machine to have someone look at it who'd offered me a very fair quote. Turned out to have been a bad RAM chip - the...

This is a cosmetically excellent M6805 (Athlon64 3000+) that was working flawlessly for almost 3 years, then suddeenly stopped. Error screens and a 4 beep code hints at a problem on the motherboard (apparently, but not sure). I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Thunder_PC Hope all goes well! You know where to find us Thanks! I haven't had time to take it apart again, in fact right now I can't justify the time it *might* take to find...

Hi there NE. I was on the phone to CC just now trying to get a feel for whether they'd ever be getting their advertised 'R61i with a 5450 processor'. Of course, nobody had a clue, and they sure weren't giving any guarantees over...

Thunder - thanks for the links. I'll see how I go tonight (fingers crossed). Might be a few days before I have time to tear it down again. Thanks everyone, for your input! Dave

Quote: Originally Posted by Thunder_PC That's actually usually the first sign or failing or faulty RAM. It may not be a RAM issue, but between the BIOS beeps, and the fact you can't even boot stably from restore disks...

visionary811 - thanks, but I tried getting into safe mode last time, and the machine froze up before I could even get that far. In fact, this time around, I haven't even been able to get through basic setup after restore before she just...

Quote: Originally Posted by Thunder_PC The 4 beeps (assuming all the same length) are either the board itself, or the first bank of RAM. Either would cause the blank screen, the countdown to normal restart, or BSOD....

Thanks qhn for the etiquette tip. I would be looking at the RAM slot swapover, but for the fact that the problems I'm having seem the same as I had before, i.e. mainly the black screen with either countdown to normal restart or error...