Well, the AOpen EZ18 XC Cube now has its mobo BIOS back, cos Agent is my hero Cheers matey.
I aint making no progress though...none at all.
BIOS chip went in....hit power, and straight away I had a warning buzzer from the motherboard.
This SFF has Dr Voice built in to tell you whats up with bleeding obvious stuff, but this isnt the voice. This is just a mobo siren.
I took the heatsink off and checked the application, all was well, so I put it all back in.
Thats when I forgot to put the CPU fan back on.
I have tried this XP1700 in my main system....it doesn;t boot....
so thats another £32 down the tube, cos Zak really is clueless.
LUCKILY I have a Duron 1gig sat here for just such an emergency....and in it went.
FAN PLUGGED IN......power on.....still got the alarm...
I have done the following:
Taken out the HDD , FDD, CD rom....plus all cables for these devices.
Reset BIOS (power lead out, mobo power out, move jumper, wait 5 mins...move jumper back, power leads back in.
This thing goes to BIOS but beeps....you can set BIOS up and save it to CMOS....it beeps.
So after 2 hours, I put the HDD and CD back in and started Windows XP install....I didnt let it go all the way, but it copied files, and began...
it all works....BUT IT BEEPS....all the time.
I then tried taking it ALL out...AND I took all the memory out....to see what warning I got.
Dr Voice kindly told me there was a problem with my memory. So it works.....BUT I could only hear her sexy voice withour beeping . Which must mean its olny after the ram checks that the beeping finds something wrong
AOPen's Forums are dire....
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whats goin on dudes? my ear 'oles hurt