First post, by Hudson187
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Gents,
I recently acquired a older tower from a tag sale that housed a Biostar M5ATA mobo with a P200 and 24meg of EDO ram. I've been tinkering with it for the past month or so, putting Windows 95 on it along with a PCI 8mb Rage XL card, Diamond Monster 3D (V1), a ISA ESS 1868 SC and a 10/100 PCI NIC. Everything was working fine until last night; I installed a new CD-ROM unit (was fine, found within bios and Win95) and updated the Rage XL drivers. I also put in a P233 (changed jumpers appropriately per the manual -- processor was found by bios and I was able to boot into Windows, even played a few games). Everything was fine for about an hour. This is when things when bad -- I decided to reset the bios to default to see if it helped my performance; Skynet @ 640x480 wasn't working as well as it should have. After resetting the bios, the unit began to boot into Windows, then it just stopped with only the underscore blinking in the top left of the monitor. I let it sit for about 5 minutes and nothing, so I hit the reset button. Now, I get a bios beep from the onboard speaker and another beep from the offboard speaker. The beeps go as such:
Onboard: 1 long beep (about 1 1/2 sec), then 3 short beeps.
Right after the onboard error beeps, the offboard speaker goes:
1 higher pitched beep, about 1 1/2 sec, then a lower pitched beep for the same duration
I've pulled out all PCI/ISA cards, unplugged all IDE/Floppy connectors, reseated the P233 CPU, put the P200 back in, removed all 4 sticks of ram (gave a different code then), tried with 1 stick (each of the 4 at different times), etc, etc.
Any suggestions? I thinking its either a no video card error and my Rage XL is toast, bios is corrupt, all memory is bad, both CPU's are bad or the mobo is bad. I looked up Phoenix error codes but nothing matched.
Thanks!
