Digital Personal Workstation 433a

[Patrick Fleming]

I did something similar not too long ago, I ended up starting with only
ram, cpu and video... then pugged things in one at a time until I found
the offending device.. managed to short out a LS120 drive, causing nothing
to work until it was unplugged- ide and power cables both.

Patrick


On 15 Sep 2001, Nathan England wrote:

>
> By your beep codes, I would think you have a Phoenix BIOS, but there is
> no 1 - 3 - 3 beep code for them...
> Award usually only beeps if the video system is bad.. So I would start
> there..
>
> I would make sure you put the cables in correctly..
> the pin layouts are correct. The red line on the same side as the power
> plug.
>
> It could be beeping because when the hard drive was installed you may
> have shocked the video card..
> Try swapping the card with your win box and see if it works..
>
> But either way, I would start there.
>
> nathan
>
>
> On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 21:05, cstranslations wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a DPW 433a on which I'd like to install Redhat. When I power the box
> > up I don't get anything on the screen. When the monitor is disconnect I get
> > a "no signal" on the tube (using the monitor on a windows98 box at the
> > moment). On power up I get a single beep, a pause, three beeps, a pause,
> > then three beeps. Didn't have this problem when I acquired the box - been
> > like this since putting a disk drive in...
> >
> > I don't see any cables or anything that I might have accidentally
> > disconnected/disturbed while I had the box apart. I was wondering if anyone
> > might have an idea (the video card went bad by dumb luck at just the right
> > time, I accidentally pulled some cabling out) before I throw any money at it
> > (at the moment I don't have any money to throw at it).
> >
> > TIA for any suggestions.
> >
> > joe
> >
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