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My first free computer :D

Tr3vor said:
Now it poops out, I think it might be the bulging cap or something, or my ram went bad.

It thows me the 1 long and 3 short beeps upon power up, so since I think its AMI, that means error in ram above 64k, but if thats so, wouldn't there be a picture at least?

I might swap out some ram, and if that don't work, I'll try getting that cap replaced soon :rain:
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take a pencil eraser and rub the contacts on the simms/dimms. this will make them nice and shiney. you can also do this to your agp/pci/isa cards. I had a stick of ram that a friend threw away as "bad" and I secretly fixed it and used it for myself.
 
I'm not so sure that it is the ram though, since the BIOSes of these kind of computers usually check the first 64k, bring up the screen and then check the rest of the memory, right? So the fact that it isn't bringing up the screen is something. and it instantly gives me the beep code, instead of giving it to me when checking the memory. Also, I have quick boot enabled on that machine, so it shouldn't check past the first 64k anyway. I'm thinking its that cap.
 
So you're saying that nothing appears on the screen at all? If so, then check the video card to make sure that it is in all the way, or try another video card. That solved the 1 long, 3 short problem on a P1 computer that was doing that for the longest time.
 
My problem is that I didn't check the BIOS type and assumed that it was AMI, or thought it was AMI because my other computer had one, but in fact its an Award BIOS, so the issue is actually "no video or bad video ram", so I reseated the video card, and bam, it works again. I wonder why though, it was working just last week. oh well, computers will be computers.

But I'm still gonna keep an eye on that bulging cap >_>
 
Cards and RAM cards/chips can work their way loose over time, or if you've moved the computer recently. But anyway, glad you've got it working again. Even if the card is just barely worked loose, the computer will respond badly to it.
 
hmm now, it won't post with that video card in it anymore. period. its throwing beep codes at me all day. I am guessing that its video card is dead. I put another PCI video card in, and it didn't throw beep codes at me, but it posted once, and now it won't do it again, and no beep codes.

I think something's going on here...
 
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