On Monday 08 December 2003 01:19 pm, George W Hurless wrote:
> On an HP Pavilion PII 6470Z, 400MH cpu, after a lightening strike crash
> it gives
> four beeps on POST then shuts down.
> A web site indicated that this was " System timer failure ".
> Would this indicate a bad ( fried ) motherboard?
>
> I couldn't get anything from HP, so I am at a loss as what to check for
> next.
> Any comments appreciated.
> George Hurless

George:
While it sounds very much as if your motherboard has been fried, in some BIOS
that signal can also mean that the first bank of RAM has failed. I'd try
replacing that chip with the the last chip in the RAM bank, and rebooting.
It's worth a try.

Regards,
Carroll Grigsby

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