Sending again, with KMail set up right On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 2:00 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 19:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've tried the swap and, when the 256 chip is in the first position, I > > get nothing; absolutely nothing. No boot up, nothing. The power comes > > on, but nothing happens. When I leave just the 256 chip in by itself, I > > get a really long beep and, again, nothing. > > your 256 chip is kaput.
I agree. A long beep is the BIOS Power-On Self-Test (POST) telling you that it has no memory. The various beep signals change by manufacturer, but this one seems familiar. The BIOS website should have a list of beep codes if you are really interested. <rant>Note to everyone who handles chips of whatever type. If you damage a chip by static electricity it doesn't fail now, it fails in about two weeks time. Which in the case of a reseller, is probably when the new owner tries to use it, and in any case is long after you remember carrying it across the nylon carpet while wearing a nylon shirt and stroking the cat.</rant> Your disk problems: check the master and slave jumpers and the cable positions. This is the recognised "best" way of doing things: Primary IDE-------Slave HD------Master HD Secondary IDE------Slave CD------Master CD You may want to do it this way: Primary IDE-------empty------Master HD Secondary IDE------Slave HD------Master CD Which will (IIUC) give you faster HD speeds if you are not accessing the CD, but adding another CD (eg a DVD or writer) would mean swapping the HD back (and thereby changing the mount point,) or making disk accesses slower. The 80 conductor cables are more sensitive to the order of devices than the old 40 conductor cables were. The long end must plug into the mainboard. The master must be on the other end. Check the orientation of the cable, just because it has a key it doesn't mean you can't plug it in the wrong way. I've certainly done it frequently. Check all the plugs are secure after you finish. You may have pulled one plug partially out in your attempts to get the next into its socket. I always like to ensure that each drive is powered from a different set of cables from the power supply; I avoid the daisy-chained plugs if at all possible. Otherwise any noise or voltage drops created by one drive will be seen by the other. Some drives have different jumper settings for master-with-slave and master-without-slave. Test everything before you put the case back together. Murphy's law ensures that it is more likely to go wrong when you have screwed it together and put it back in its corner befoer checking that it works. (I'm only half joking here.) HTH -- Richard Urwin ------------------------------------------------------- -- Richard Urwin
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