Carol,
The board only had one RAM chip. I pulled it thinking it wouldn't hurt
to see what happens. On start up I got one beep pause three beeps
pause three beeps pause one beep. The computer did not shut down,
the keyboard lights stayed on and POST would not continue. I'm
going to have to scrounge a RAM board it look like before I go further.
Do you know what the one three three one code signifies?
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

> > 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?


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