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Dale, I did as you suggested and sure enough it seems to work now, BIOS
found all the hardware and video card seems to work. I will install OS
(Debian GNU/Linux) and roll on I hope. Much thanks to you and all who
helped me. I learned a lot. Thanks again.
George
Dale Wilcox wrote:
> Pull and reseat your video card. With the power off!
> I had this board at one time and if the card is disturbed it can slip a
> little and not work.
> Good luck.
> Dale
> "George" <louisianaguy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>Beemer Biker wrote:
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>>>"George" <louisianaguy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:107ui2pk1enmb60@corp.supernews.com...
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>>>>I have an ASUS P5A that I have been running with a AMD K-6 500 MH
>>>>with GNU/Linux Debian. I replaced the the hard drive and
>>>>now it does not boot. When I power up I get only a response from
>>>>the speaker ( one long beep followed by three short beeps ). After
>>>>that I see the access lights from the CD ROM and the new hard drive
>>>>light up. Nothing else happens, no post, nothing. I tried putting back
>>>>the old hard drive but same response. I hate to admit it but
>>>>I installed the new hard drive without turning off the power to the
>>>>mainboard.
>>>>Did I fry my P5A? Any help will be appreciated.
>>>>
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>>>probably got plug backward on hard drive or offset by a row or one or
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> more column of pins. i have done that a bunch and have never lost board,
> really easy to do on floppy.
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>>>OTOH if you plugged it in with power on, you may have popped a
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> capacitor. Look for some of those big ones that have an "X' in the top of
> the capacator and see if there is one or two that are puffed out at the top.
> If you find one, snip it off. usually they are all in parallel and you can
> do without just one more often than not.
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>>>see if it still beeps if you disconnect just about everyting except the
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> speaker and cpu.
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>>I checked all the things that you suggested. The capacitors all look
>>normal, flat tops. I replugged the cables and power supply to the drive
>>and even to the mainboard end and they appear to be correctly inserted.
>>It is hard to get them
>>wrong since they basically just can be inserted only one way. When you
>>say disconnect just about anything I am not sure what you mean. The
>>board has connected to it a IDE hard drive, IDE CD Rom, floppy, serial
>>port, parallel port, keyboard, PS2 mouse, AGP video card, sound card,
>>and network card. The serial port and the parallel have nothing
>>connected to them.
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