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Steve Scrimpshire · 10-05-2003, 03:22 PM

Thanks for the tips. I am definitely not a hardware person...I'm more of a software guy. I do not have another stick of RAM to test or another MoBo to test this stick on. I have a question that may steer the diagnosis. I set the BIOS to 'Halt on all errors except disk errors' and I tried to reinstall Linux. I still got the 3 beeps and a freeze, but the system did not reboot or halt. Does that mean it is definitely a disk error? Does that mean it still could be the IDE controller?

As soon as the house is empty, I'm going to take this disk and put it in the other computer here and try to install on it. I will then take the spare drive from the other computer and try to install Linux on it on this box. Any other thoughts? Should I still not rule out RAM?

I removed all overclocking while testing and troubleshooting.

10-05-2003, 03:22 PM	#3
Steve Scrimpshire Member (4 bit) Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 8	Thanks for the tips. I am definitely not a hardware person...I'm more of a software guy. I do not have another stick of RAM to test or another MoBo to test this stick on. I have a question that may steer the diagnosis. I set the BIOS to 'Halt on all errors except disk errors' and I tried to reinstall Linux. I still got the 3 beeps and a freeze, but the system did not reboot or halt. Does that mean it is definitely a disk error? Does that mean it still could be the IDE controller? As soon as the house is empty, I'm going to take this disk and put it in the other computer here and try to install on it. I will then take the spare drive from the other computer and try to install Linux on it on this box. Any other thoughts? Should I still not rule out RAM? I removed all overclocking while testing and troubleshooting.