First post, by EdmondDantes
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As I said when I first came here, I had an old game's computer that just stopped working right.
The machine in question was an AMD-K6 processor (I don't know what the motherboard was) that ran at 500 MHz. I never overclocked it. It usually had about 64mb of RAM in it, but I switched it out a few times (last time it worked it had 128mb). Its video card was a Voodoo 3 2000 fitted into the PCI slot, but when it started acting up I also tested it with a Diamond Stealth III and some other generic card I can't remember the name of. Its sound card was a Sound Blaster 16 fitted in the ISA slot.
What exactly happened was this: After moving (I've moved several times since getting this computer) it developed a problem where it would turn on and start making these BEEEEP! *pause* BEEEEEP! *pause* BEEEEP! noises. Nothing displayed on the monitor. The first time this happened, it was after switching out the memory, so I thought the memory was bad, but it did the same thing with a stick that I knew was good too, so I started thinking it was the video card. But as I said, it did this with three different cards.
The development of this problem was gradual. At first it only happened every once in awhile, and all I normally had to do to fix it was turn the machine off and then back on. But then it got worse about doing it. A few days ago (the first time I slipped in the Diamond card) it worked fine twice, and I got on and played Duke Nukem 3D, but then I turned it off and then back on, just as an acid test... and it started doing the BEEEEPing again. Its been doing it ever since.
Now understand, I'm no computer expert. I can switch out video cards and memory but I'm not gonna touch anything else. Even so, I'm curious about what happened. Any theories?