Dear Ian: I've tried 8 different sticks of ram from 32 to 128mb of sdram.
Once in awhile I get the long repeating beeps and the pwr-on led lites but
most of the time nothing at all happens,just the cpu cooling fan operating.
Tried 3 different cpu's too. Same results. All of the above mentioned ram
and cpu's work OK on other boards.  Any more ideas?  Thanks  Edwin Bogert.


>From: Ian <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Bad news motherboards?
>Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:42:33 +1300
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>I had a similar thing happen once - turned out to be bad ram. Changed the
>stick for another make and the problem went away.  Seems like certain mobos
>don't like certain kinds of ram.
>
>Ian Porter
>Computer Guys
>Arrowtown
>New Zealand
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Edwin Bogert
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:46 PM
>   Subject: [PCBUILD] Bad news motherboards?
>
>
>   I recently purchased (2) brand new Biostar M6VCF mobo's and, installed
>them in mid-towers with 250watt power supplies. After following the set-up
>procedures outlined in their guides, I encountered the following problems.
>(1)--pushing the power on button lights the power-on led along with the HD
>led and it does it's blinking and such. Then--I get a series of
>long-repeating beeps continously and no video or anything.  Upon pushing
>the power off button and holding it in until it powers off--the power led
>remains on until I open the main power switch. Iv'e tried all combinations
>of video cards,known good processors and, memory but to no avail. The
>mobo's are Biostar M6VCF boards with Award bios and, Via 694x-686b
>chipsets. Using celeron 500mhz ppga processors on 66mhz fsb and clocked at
>8.0. S3 savage 2000 64mb video card, 128mb pc100 ram C 20gb HD, 52x cdrom
>etc. etc. Like I said, Iv'e tried all combinations of these components and
>both boards react the same. Could both of the boards be bad right out of
>the box or did I mess-up or, miss something somewhere.  Never never have
>had this problem before. Is there any help out there with the listers?
>TIA,  Edwin Bogert [log in to unmask]
>
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