[Nottingham] Boot up problem

[Andrew Mason]

www.memtest86.org

if thats fine then  try updating your bios. If your board has jumpers, check
that they are correct. If it still beeps, trash it, mb is probably dead. 
(oh and just check to make sure the capacitors haven't burst)

Andrew M


Quoting danny <danny at rootshell.be>:

> Hi,
> 
> When i have to restart this box 99% of the time it dosnt boot. It either
> gives 
> me 3 high pitched fast beeps and 2 low, slow beeb (which is a memory error)
> 
> or nothing at all. It normally takes me 10 mins and 20 attempts or so to get
> 
> it booted up!
> 
> When i leave the power off for a while, on booting the BIOS is automatically
> 
> loaded and it says this :
> 
> "During your last boot up your system hung for an impoper CPU speed. Your 
> system is now working in safe mode (BUS: 100MHz, PCI: 33MHz) to optimize the
> 
> system performance and reliability make sure the settings related to the CPU
> 
> + DRAM conforms the specifications."
> 
> Thing is, i cant change the CPU or DRAM settings, they seem to only have one
> 
> possible value.....their current settings.
> 
> Does anyone have any clue as to what i can do to fix this REALLY annoying 
> problem?
> 
> thanks
> -- 
> - Danny
> 
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