Alan,

Just one quick thought.  Did you try testing the PC speaker itself to make
sure something wasn't wrong with it?  If there is, you could be getting
beeps and not hearing them, making the problem that much harder to diagnose.

Kyle

From: "Alan(A.J.) Haas" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 6:28 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] fans on, no beeps


> I baught a new system in parts.  Everything new.  I have hooked everything
> up except a hard drive but I can't even get a beep from the bios.  The
parts are:
>
> Asus Mother Board: P3C2000
> Celeron 500 on PPG to slot 1 adaptor with auto detect voltage
> 4M AGP card (not sure of brand.
> mid tower case with 250 W. power supply
> 128M SDRAM
>
> I notice that checking the 5 volts, without processer installed, it reads
5V.
> With processer installed it is 4.91V.  Is this too much of a change?  I
have
> pulled out Ram, video card, and CPU, all one at a time and all together.
> Shouldn't I get a beep even if the cpu is bad?
> Thanks in advance

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