[plug] OT: POST codes for Gigabyte?

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:14:30AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> Good morning pluggers.
> 
> I've been trying to figure out why this Gigabyte mainboard isn't
> getting past the POST after a CPU swap. Not even with the same CPU
> back in the system.
> 
> It's a GA-7VTXH+. POST produces 3 long beeps followed by a long
> pause. What have I broken?
> 
> Gigabyte web syte doesn't list POST codes and of course, they're not
> in TFM.
> 
> 
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beep codes are generally a function of BIOS
manufacturer.

here's a web pages with codes for  some
popular BIOSs

http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml

under "ye olde IBM sort of standard" 3 long beeps used to mean
"keyboard trouble" 
(e.g. none of my old compaq's will boot w/o a kb)


hth,



Indy.


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