slightly OT: BIOS beep codes for Asus MEW-VM

[agaffney]

I am trying to build another Gentoo box to replace my D-link router. I have an older motherboard I pulled from an HP Pavilion workstation 2 years ago. It was pulled for an upgrade. It was working at the time. The board is an Asus MEW-VM. It has a Socket 370 Celeron 500 MHz CPU in it. Asus doesn't list the board on their site and HP no longer supports it (no docs).

When I try to boot the system up, I get a series of beeps (beep (wait) beep beep beep (wait) beep beep beep (wait) beep) and nothing else. I've looked all over online and I can't seem to match this beep code to any particular error. I found that a lot of the HP Pavilion's BIOSes used 8 beeps (doesn't say if there are pauses) to signify a video problem, but I tried a PCI video card (board has onboard video) and I got the same beep code.

I've tried the 2 sticks of RAM I have (64MB PC66 SDRAM) in different slots, by themselves and together. I tried switching the FSB to 100MHZ from 66MHz. The system didn't beep, but it didn't do anything else, either. I tried this with and without RAM in it with the same result.

Can anyone give me any pointers (beside get a new board)?

[teknomage1]

is the harddisk outside the range the bios can handle? In general it's a memory error, i know every vectra i've worked on uses beeps mainly when it doesn't like the ram or if the onboard video is fried. you might try taking out the cmos battery for a bit to reset the settings in the bios.

[agaffney]

It does it with or without a HD/CDROM connected. I'll try resetting the CMOS data.