Steve Scrimpshire
10-05-2003, 01:43 PM
Asus a7v600
AMD 2500+ XP
Kingston 512 PC2700
Seagate 80G 7200 RPM ATA drive
In Linux, I tried to create a new partition and move my /usr over there and like a dummy, I never do it right and I lose all my stuff. So, I decided to try
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/dev/hda1
and it hung up. So, I had to power off. Well, since I had lost the stuff in /usr, it wouldn't boot. I went to try to reinstall and it gets to the point of formatting and then I get 3 quick BIOS beeps and it freezes. The HD activity light is still on, but the screen is frozen. I wait as for way longer than it should take to format the partition and the HD light is still on and the screen is still frozen. So, I power off again. I put in the Win2K disk and delete all the partitions and fomat the whole drive and reinstall Windows....no problems there. So, I put the mdk9.1 Linux disk back in and it gets to installing 'time' and I get the 3 beeps again and freeze. Tried two more times with different partition sizes and still get the 3 beeps and a freeze, mostly during install of packages. Not the same time frame. So, I whip out my Seagate disk and try to zero out the whole drive. It says 'writing' for a certain length of time and then the 3 ominous beeps and freeze (the progress bar has not moved yet). So, I reinstall Win2K again. Again no problems. I try to reinstall 9.1 and I get the 3 beeps some time during the package install process. I've searched the web and can find no meaning of just 3 short beeps. 1 long followed by 3 short is supposed to be a problem with video card and can't print error to screen. Any ideas? The HD is only about 6 months old and the rest of the hardware is only about 2-3 months old. I downloaded the latest Mandrake 9.2 and burnt the CDs and I get the same problems with installation.
AMD 2500+ XP
Kingston 512 PC2700
Seagate 80G 7200 RPM ATA drive
In Linux, I tried to create a new partition and move my /usr over there and like a dummy, I never do it right and I lose all my stuff. So, I decided to try
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/dev/hda1
and it hung up. So, I had to power off. Well, since I had lost the stuff in /usr, it wouldn't boot. I went to try to reinstall and it gets to the point of formatting and then I get 3 quick BIOS beeps and it freezes. The HD activity light is still on, but the screen is frozen. I wait as for way longer than it should take to format the partition and the HD light is still on and the screen is still frozen. So, I power off again. I put in the Win2K disk and delete all the partitions and fomat the whole drive and reinstall Windows....no problems there. So, I put the mdk9.1 Linux disk back in and it gets to installing 'time' and I get the 3 beeps again and freeze. Tried two more times with different partition sizes and still get the 3 beeps and a freeze, mostly during install of packages. Not the same time frame. So, I whip out my Seagate disk and try to zero out the whole drive. It says 'writing' for a certain length of time and then the 3 ominous beeps and freeze (the progress bar has not moved yet). So, I reinstall Win2K again. Again no problems. I try to reinstall 9.1 and I get the 3 beeps some time during the package install process. I've searched the web and can find no meaning of just 3 short beeps. 1 long followed by 3 short is supposed to be a problem with video card and can't print error to screen. Any ideas? The HD is only about 6 months old and the rest of the hardware is only about 2-3 months old. I downloaded the latest Mandrake 9.2 and burnt the CDs and I get the same problems with installation.