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badomen6969

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    Greenhorn

    Stuck at POST
    « on: July 05, 2009, 04:52:40 AM »
    I have a PC that wont get past POST.

    Turn on, beeps once, all three lights on keyboard flash once
    1 Sec later the keyboard will no longer work
    If i push 'Delete' fast enough i see the following (cant reliably get into BIOS either, did Delete->F8 fast enough once but cant since)

    -----------------------------------
    American Megatrends (logo)

    Entering setup...
    Press F8 for BBS Popup
    PC-3800 duel channel asymmetric
    Checking NV RAM..
    Initializing USB Controllers ..
    ----------------------------------

    Just sits at that screen forever. I tried unplug the HDD and the CD ROM but no diff. I will try cycling out the RAM tomorrow and update but i have a feeling it wont be the problem. Any advice?

    pragma



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      Re: Stuck at POST
      « Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 06:07:21 AM »
      Could you give us some more details.
      The specs would be nice.
      Have the PC ever worked? If yes, did anything happen around the time it stopped working?


      westom



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        Re: Stuck at POST
        « Reply #2 on: July 05, 2009, 06:08:34 AM »
        Turn on, beeps once, all three lights on keyboard flash once
        Follow the evidence; don't speculate.  The beep code for AMI report DRAM refresh failure.  Those Beep codes are somewhere on this server.

          Try booting with each DRAM removed one at a time.  If it does not even work with any one DRAM, then then motherboard circuits that talk to the DRAM may be defective or power supply voltages are out of spec.  Normal is for a computer to operate (as yours has) and have completely defective voltages.  Three suspects defined.