On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Pete Travis wrote:
Asus and the like don't make BIOS, they get it from AMI or Phoenix or whatever. It will usually say in POST screens or in the setup itself; failing that, it might be etched on the chip itself.
Thanks. That enabled me to find http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/amibeep.htm
In my experience, though, 97% of problems whose symptoms include beep codes are memory issues. Well, maybe that's a contrived figure, but it is enough that I'd look for spare memory first and a beep code reference after.
The beep codes say memory. I ran memtest86 overnight and it passed. That said, I'm not sure how good memtest86 is. Could you suggest a memory test program that might find in a few hours what POST found in less than two minutes?
To me, cracking the case is a *really* big deal. I don't want to do it unless I know I have to. Static, ribbons, fear and trepidation. I certainly do not want to have to buy some more DDR2 memory.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Also good.