https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7fWW0UurXU
It's some generic 430vx motherboard. Maybe a PC-Chips M520?
I've tried two different PCI video cards and two sets of RAM.
I hear one long-ish beep and three shorter ones.
I validated all the jumpers are set properly for the P166 installed, and cleared the BIOS.
AMI BIOS memory failure
Award BIOS keyboard controller failure.
Phenix BIOS has "set CPU speed
The PC chips M520 normally uses an Award BIOS (at least mine does) but keyboard controller failure should not stop the board from posting. This AMI memory failure is not listed as critcal either, the critical memory faliures that hinder a board from posting is 1, 2 or 3 beeps with an AMI BIOS, not 1 long and 3 short beeps .
Phenix BIOS has "set CPU speed" listed as 2-1-1-1 which I guess is the same as one long and 3 short beeps.
Check your jumper settings once more and repance the memory with yet another set if you have more spare modules, try another CPU if you have one.
Get a diagnostic post card, they make it a bit easier to find out what is wrong, as a bonus you get a small manual that lists beep codes. In general a beeping board is a good sign, no beeps is much worse when it comes to boards that fail to post.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
yeah, I'd much rather have beeps than no beeps...
I've got about fifty 72-pin simms, I'll try a few more sets.
Good idea on the post card, I will look around and pick one up.
Also test to move the video card to another slot, some i430VX boards wont post with the video card in the first PCI slot for some reason.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
Actually it did end up being a video card problem; three out of my four PCI video cards had the same issue. Only my Diamond Stealth 64 worked, and it posted and booted perfectly.
Good that it got solved! 😀
Be careful if you decide to upgrade the BIOS on the PC Chip M520, there are different BIOS versions depending on what FLASH chip your board has and flashing the wrong one can make the board fail to post.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
1long, 3short: No video card or bad video RAM
wrote:1long, 3short: No video card or bad video RAM
That one is listed as an IBM BIOS beep code in my pamphlet. 😀
You can never trust the Chineese. 😁
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
It's interesting that I pulled one of the PCI video cards out of a working machine, and one of the others was known good as of about a month ago.
I can't remember whether PCI had any sort of compatibility issues/versioning issues back then.
