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Posted by peter on June 6, 2008, 5:53 am
Please log in for more thread options replies were very helpful. I bought some memory online and opened up my PC. There were two memory slots and one was hard to get at as the video card was in the way. So I took out the video card (carefully) then popped out the two memory cards. Then I realised that I'd bought the wrong memory card!! Silly me, never mind I'd only lost a few pounds, so I put the old memory cards back and the video card. Trouble is that the PC now doesn't work: 1) PC starts up and you hear the drives start to turn 2) There is nothing displayed on the monitor 3) The PC gives three long beeps, pause, three long beeps etc etc. I don't understand what I could have done wrong taking out some memory and video cards and then replacing them. How can I get my PC back? Any help warmly appreciated. Peter | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Gerard Bok on June 6, 2008, 7:24 am
Please log in for more thread options That means that the video card is malfunctioning. And given your story: you failed to properly reseat the card :-) -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok | |||||||||||||
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Posted by peter on June 6, 2008, 7:35 am
Please log in for more thread options On 6 Jun, 12:24, bok...@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:53:30 -0700 (PDT), peter
> > >A week or so I posted a message about upgrading the memory and the
> >replies were very helpful. I bought some memory online and opened up > >my PC. There were two memory slots and one was hard to get at as the > >video card was in the way. So I took out the video card (carefully) > >then popped out the two memory cards. Then I realised that I'd bought > >the wrong memory card!! Silly me, never mind I'd only lost a few > >pounds, so I put the old memory cards back and the video card. >
> >Trouble is that the PC now doesn't work:
>
> >1) PC starts up and you hear the drives start to turn
> >2) There is nothing displayed on the monitor > >3) The PC gives three long beeps, pause, three long beeps etc etc. >
> That means that the video card is malfunctioning. > And given your story: you failed to properly reseat the card :-) > > -- > Kind regards, > Gerard Bok OK, Let me double-check that I've put the video card in properly and re-try. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by peter on June 6, 2008, 7:42 am
Please log in for more thread options > On 6 Jun, 12:24, bok...@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:53:30 -0700 (PDT), peter
>
> > >A week or so I posted a message about upgrading the memory and the
> > >replies were very helpful. I bought some memory online and opened up > > >my PC. There were two memory slots and one was hard to get at as the > > >video card was in the way. So I took out the video card (carefully) > > >then popped out the two memory cards. Then I realised that I'd bought > > >the wrong memory card!! Silly me, never mind I'd only lost a few > > >pounds, so I put the old memory cards back and the video card. >
> > >Trouble is that the PC now doesn't work:
>
> > >1) PC starts up and you hear the drives start to turn
> > >2) There is nothing displayed on the monitor > > >3) The PC gives three long beeps, pause, three long beeps etc etc. >
> > That means that the video card is malfunctioning.
> > And given your story: you failed to properly reseat the card :-) >
> > --
> > Kind regards, > > Gerard Bok >
> OK, Let me double-check that I've put the video card in properly and > re-try.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - have tried reseating the card a couple of times now. It clicks into place neatly, but still the same problem.. Might i have accidently damaged the card as I took it out. Would this cause the problem? | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Gerard Bok on June 6, 2008, 8:16 am
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 04:42:03 -0700 (PDT), peter
>> On 6 Jun, 12:24, bok...@zonnet.nl (Gerard Bok) wrote:
>> > On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:53:30 -0700 (PDT), peter
>>
>> > >A week or so I posted a message about upgrading the memory and the
>> > >replies were very helpful. I bought some memory online and opened up >> > >my PC. There were two memory slots and one was hard to get at as the >> > >video card was in the way. So I took out the video card (carefully) >> > >then popped out the two memory cards. Then I realised that I'd bought >> > >the wrong memory card!! Silly me, never mind I'd only lost a few >> > >pounds, so I put the old memory cards back and the video card. >>
>> > >Trouble is that the PC now doesn't work:
>>
>> > >1) PC starts up and you hear the drives start to turn
>> > >2) There is nothing displayed on the monitor >> > >3) The PC gives three long beeps, pause, three long beeps etc etc. >>
>> > That means that the video card is malfunctioning.
>> > And given your story: you failed to properly reseat the card :-) >have tried reseating the card a couple of times now. It clicks into
>place neatly, but still the same problem.. Then your next check should be the SIMMs. I recon that you did remove them ? Check if they are properly seated, no dust or other bad stuff inside the SIMM connectors. If the problem persists, try booting with just one of the SIMM modules. -- Kind regards, Gerard Bok | |||||||||||||
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>replies were very helpful. I bought some memory online and opened up
>my PC. There were two memory slots and one was hard to get at as the
>video card was in the way. So I took out the video card (carefully)
>then popped out the two memory cards. Then I realised that I'd bought
>the wrong memory card!! Silly me, never mind I'd only lost a few
>pounds, so I put the old memory cards back and the video card.
>
>Trouble is that the PC now doesn't work:
>
>1) PC starts up and you hear the drives start to turn
>2) There is nothing displayed on the monitor
>3) The PC gives three long beeps, pause, three long beeps etc etc.