NO DISPLAY...Help!

[gilbz]

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naa ko pentium 3 which I decided to "bring back to service" aron magamit sa akong anak. i replaced it's busted 250watts power supply with a new 350watts ATX power supply from CDR-King. i turned it on and it worked just fine. i cleaned it up of unecessary old data files to maximize it's 10GB hardrive. viewed some old pics that I have in the unit and re-organized the remaining contents. puro data files lang sa DATA partition akong gihilabtan. I didnt tinker at all with the system files.

after about 2 hours of using it, i turned it off - and called it a night.

this morning, when i turned it on, there's no display in the monitor. mag sige lang blink ang LED light sa monitor, meaning walay signal gasulod. but the CPU i can tell is working just fine. i restarted several times but still, walay display. then sa last pag restart nako...after waiting for several minutes for a miracle to happen...i heard 3 beeps from the CPU.

i dont know what that means? so i just turned off the unit na lang.

by the way, the MOBO is an Intel P3 8oo Mghz. It has it's own built-n VGA port.

[softtouch]

What bios does it has? Award or Ami bios?

[gilbz]

What bios does it has? Award or Ami bios?

it's AMI bios. i checked the MOBO, there's a chip there with the American Megatrends mark.

[krkchn]

Three long beeps na cya? Its probably dust sa imo memory. Just blow off dust inside the casing. Take off your memory and put it back in.

[softtouch]

And it beeps 3 times? Are you sure about that?
3 beeps with Ami bios means Base 64K memory failure, A memory failure has occurred in the first 64K of RAM. The RAM IC is probably bad (or lost contact)

[gilbz]

bingo! that could be it! i remember after turning it off last night, I removed the RAMs to clean them and to check what type of RAM i need to look for since i am planning to buy another one since i still have 1 RAM slot left. I have 2 64K RAM isntalled.

so either i have a damaged RAM or just lost contact?

[softtouch]

bingo! that could be it! i remember after turning it off last night, I removed the RAMs to clean them and to check what type of RAM i need to look for since i am planning to buy another one since i still have 1 RAM slot left. I have 2 64K RAM isntalled.

so either i have a damaged RAM or just lost contact?

Maybe the contacts are corroded. Just try to clean the memory slots and the contacts of the memory.
Of course, you could have destroyed a memory by static charge of your body at the time you touched the memory module... Hard to tell whether its bad memory or dirty contacts...

[gilbz]

Thanks a lot for the help bro! indeed it's the memory that's causing the problem. I just removed the RAMs and re-installed them. The contacts are fine and clean by the way.

the PC's working fine again.

Thanks again and have a nice day!

[gabs]

dalia ra sad ninyo nahuman oi. cge nalang. good luck!

[torade]

hinloan ra diay sulbad a2.