I proceeded to install a nVidia 6200 PCI-X Graphics Card that was lying around. BIO recovery file was supposed to boot up and activate the display, allowing me to reset the BIOS options to Default but how would I get the display if the Onboard Graphics Chip did not have access to the installed RAM (which of-course was being handled incorrectly)? Come to think of it, if the main BIOS was not working, would it’s sub-component, the Video BIOS work? And without the Video BIOS the on-board Graphics Chip wouldn’t fire-up either. I was about to give up when it stuck me that practically all the on-board components depend on / share the installed RAM to work. I tried all other combinations of BIOS Configuration jumpers like “Normal Mode”, “Configuration Mode”, “CMOS Battery ripped out”, “CMOS Battery put back-in”. The system beeped thrice, the CD-ROM drive whirled for a while and then there was silence. The instructions said – to start recovery, I should insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive, put the BIOS in recovery mode by removing the jumper from BIOS Configuration Jumper Pins on the motherboard and start the computer. BIO file onto a 1.44MB floppy (ruled out: don’t have floppies at home, nor care to trust a floppy to store even 1 byte data correctly) or a blank CDROM. The procedure says that either I should copy the. Obviously, I choice was Option 1 – the BIOS recovery file.
Intel desktop board beep codes update#
BIO file for BIOS recovery, a set of files for BIOS update from DOS, a set of files for BIOS update from Windows OS. Most BIOS updates are offered in 3 formats – a. Intel offers BIOS updates for most motherboards in it’s product range. A BIOS recovery has to be performed to restore the system. It appears that on many Intel motherboards, if the user sets incorrect RAM timings, the BIOS is affected and motherboard stops working. If that were possible for everyone, no one would have bothered to raise similar queries even once on various forums and websites.
Most sites suggested quite unhelpfully to “Swap the motherboard” or “Exchange under warranty”. Queries on google revealed a clue – “Base 64 K memory failure”. TechEnclave had a more comprehensive list of codes (though I did not discover this website till later). Intel Beep Codes indicated some error in RAM but their website was hopelessly terse and incomplete. Perhaps Intel was storing CMOS settings in Non-Volatile memory. Bottom-line – the motherboard still was not responding and considering the fact that the CMOS messages (settings) were not even showing, I suspected that it was a more severe underlying problem. I even tried the conventional non-techie advice like blow-sweep-mop-clean-dry (just kidding) the motherboard and RAM slots. I tried all the conventional techie stuff like removing the CMOS battery, attempting to short the battery terminals, attempting to short the CMOS Reset Pins (the placeholders actually, there are no jumper for CMOS reset on this motherboard). The keyboard was non-functional (no caps lock key indicator activity). The HDD and CDROM drive had spun-up but did not display any activity. Upon saving the settings and restarting the machine, all I heard was 3 beeps, just once. I opted for “Manual – User Defined” and entered the parameters that were printed on the RAM (5-5-5-15). Other modes are “Manual – Aggressive” and “Manual – User Defined” Normally the memory configuration is set-to Auto and the BIOS auto-detects the slowest timing that the RAM supports and uses it.
I had the insane urge to tweak the BIOS settings and I landed up in “Advanced ->Memory Configuration” page. Since the motherboard features onboard Graphics Accelerator, Sound and LAN, it is rare for people to install additional devices in the available PCI-X and PCI slots. With such a low configuration, I am gonna stick to Windows XP for this computer. The motherboard features 2 DDR2 slots, each of which can take a 1 GB DIMM for a max of 2 GB system memory. The problem started with me installing 2GB DDR2 RAM (667MHz, 1GB x 2) on an Intel D945GCCR motherboard.
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