"Honey, I blew up the DIMMs."
In this latest event in the saga of the elusive Parallel Port ROM HackStation i've managed to pull off a real boob noob event. I grabbed a couple of sticks that looked right to me in my befuddled stupor and they seemed to click into place correctly . . . but they were missing that extra divot on the PC-133 I should have been using. When I didn't here the usual two beeps and it didn't boot to setup as usual and didn't power back down from the front panel switch I flipped the switch on the PSU and removed a pair of very hot 1GB DDR sticks. OOPSIE!!!!!
When I pulled them out I also noticed that the taller of the PC-133 DIMMs wasn't completely seated completely, dunno if I knocked it loose installing or removing the (very likely ruined) 1GB DDR DIMMS or if it had been that way since I pulled the MoBo out of the anti-static bag.
I now get a near boot without the intervening beeps or winding up in the CMOS Setup.
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable error
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM
Boot Failure: System Halted
IIRC, beeps in POST are usually bad, so am I better or worse off than before that BIG@$$ boo-boo?
Time to crack Upgrading and Repairing PCs 13th EDITION . . .
. . . and/or can somebody give me an answer to that offhand? :?:
In this latest event in the saga of the elusive Parallel Port ROM HackStation i've managed to pull off a real boob noob event. I grabbed a couple of sticks that looked right to me in my befuddled stupor and they seemed to click into place correctly . . . but they were missing that extra divot on the PC-133 I should have been using. When I didn't here the usual two beeps and it didn't boot to setup as usual and didn't power back down from the front panel switch I flipped the switch on the PSU and removed a pair of very hot 1GB DDR sticks. OOPSIE!!!!!
When I pulled them out I also noticed that the taller of the PC-133 DIMMs wasn't completely seated completely, dunno if I knocked it loose installing or removing the (very likely ruined) 1GB DDR DIMMS or if it had been that way since I pulled the MoBo out of the anti-static bag.
I now get a near boot without the intervening beeps or winding up in the CMOS Setup.
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable error
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM
Boot Failure: System Halted
IIRC, beeps in POST are usually bad, so am I better or worse off than before that BIG@$$ boo-boo?
Time to crack Upgrading and Repairing PCs 13th EDITION . . .
. . . and/or can somebody give me an answer to that offhand? :?: