Thanks for all the replies,

    I have the problem taken care of now, and it working good.  The only
problem is that a friend of mine gave it to me for fixing and automatically
knew the problem by listening to the beep sequence, as i have fixed many
comps before  Before going through any hastle of buying and trying other
parts, i simply remounted the board atop of the chassis again and powered it
up.  This seemed to work and was back to normal again.  My assumption is
that he probably dropped the computer and rearranged the positions of the
devices.

Michael Martz


----- Original Message -----
From: "srs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Motherboard malfunction


i had a similar problem, in the BIOS section, there is a place to
enable/disable "Protect CPU if CPU fan off"  if it is enabled this is what
could happen. check to see if cpu fan is running. if it is, disable feature.
 my fan was running but for some reason it was not communicating to board.
i disabled and have not any problems since.  Also you will probably have to
use another power supply to enter BIOS.

stephen r stanfield

-------Original Message-------

From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
Date: 03/12/04 05:23:41
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] Motherboard malfunction

  I have a Soyo Dragon Ultra motherboard, and it's been acting up on
  me ever
  since a couple of days ago.  The problem is, when i power up the
  computer,
  nothing shows up, and notice the beeping sound.  There is a
  continuous long
  beeping sound computer from the PC speaker.  From this i assume it's
giving
  me a signal that something is up, either with the system board or
  the power
  supply.  But i've tried replacing a power supply with a known
  working one.
  The problem still exists with a new power supply.  So now, i'm
  assuming that
  the problem is within the system board.

  Thanks for any help,
  Michael Martinez

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