Help with my VP-6

[a5]

I finally got everything in and installed but when I try to post I get no visual and a repetitive beep. My power LED light comes on, My HDD light comes on, my FDD light comes on and stays on. The FDD cable is installed correctly.

I have 4 256mb sticks of Crucial Cas2 PC133
2 p3 700s/ 2 PEP66 w'Global Win38s
Hercules Geforce2 64mb
4 IBM Deskstar 30gb HDs (trying to go RAID 0+1)
1 FDD
1 16x DVD
1 430W Enermax PSU
and a HUGE 22" Flatscreen monitor

I have tried to POST with just 1 stick of ram in DIMM 1
I have discharged the CMOS and set the jumper back to NORMAL operation
I have tried just using one HDD but the HDD LED did not come on. Could be a problem here.
Can't think of anything else. But I've been racking my brain and memorizing the manual.

If anyone knows where I can find a beep/alarm code please let me know. Again, it's just a single, repetitive beeb. It goes beep....pause.....beep....pause....beep....pause....etc. The beeps are the same and the interval between is the same.

Is this a dead board? Someone please help.............

 

[marty]

Have you tried removing all the PCI cards so that you boot with video and nothing else connected?

Also have you double checked the LED connections on the board. I don't know if the VP-6 is at all finnicky, but I remember boards from the 486 era that wouldn't allow booting when the case connectors for the LEDs were not properly connected. It is a long shot at best.

 

[CPUToaster]

Dude! You've got one hell of a system there... anyway I think your problem is in the bios chip.. Have them replaced. I had similar problem on an ASUS P2BDS and the bios chip is bad. If its not posting during the boot up process and giving you all those beep codes then it is more likely the bios chip. Also check for the cmos battery. Good luck.

a5 (Mar 17, 2001 04:35 p.m.):
I finally got everything in and installed but when I try to post I get no visual and a repetitive beep. My power LED light comes on, My HDD light comes on, my FDD light comes on and stays on. The FDD cable is installed correctly.

I have 4 256mb sticks of Crucial Cas2 PC133
2 p3 700s/ 2 PEP66 w'Global Win38s
Hercules Geforce2 64mb
4 IBM Deskstar 30gb HDs (trying to go RAID 0+1)
1 FDD
1 16x DVD
1 430W Enermax PSU
and a HUGE 22" Flatscreen monitor

I have tried to POST with just 1 stick of ram in DIMM 1
I have discharged the CMOS and set the jumper back to NORMAL operation
I have tried just using one HDD but the HDD LED did not come on. Could be a problem here.
Can't think of anything else. But I've been racking my brain and memorizing the manual.

If anyone knows where I can find a beep/alarm code please let me know. Again, it's just a single, repetitive beeb. It goes beep....pause.....beep....pause....beep....pause....etc. The beeps are the same and the interval between is the same.

Is this a dead board? Someone please help.............